Sex and the Gender Revolution, Volume 1

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Part One: Introduction
1. Extramarital Relations and Gender History
2. Reputation and Identity
Female Honor: A Wife, a Widow, or a Maid
Male Honor: Adultery, Sodomy, and Masturbation
Part Two: Prostitution
3. Male Libertinism
Gentlemen and the Religion of Libertinism
The Simple Libertine
4. Prostitution: Numbers and Topography
The Number of Prostitutes
Bawds and Bawdy Houses
5. The Prostitute's Life
Recruitment into Prostitution
The Prostitute's Trade
6. Prostitution Sentimentalized
Domesticity and the Brothel
The Prostitute Redeemed, 1750-90
7. The Foul Disease
Incidence and Prophylaxis
Cures: Rape, the Lock Hospital, and Wifely Toleration
Part Three: Illegitimacy and Rape
8. Courtship or Libertinage
St. Luke's Chelsea
St. Margaret's Westminster
St. Leonard's, Shoreditch
St. Botolph's, Aldgate
9. Shame and Rape
Maintaining a Woman's Reputation
Infanticide: Delay and Denial
Can a Woman Be Raped?
Part Four: Adultery and Violence in Marriage
10. Violence in Marriage
Sexual Domination and the New Marriage
Violence, Adultery, and the Established Marriage
The Incarcerated Wife and the Remarrying Widow
Marital Violence and the Poor
11. Desertion and Incompatibility
The Deserted Spouse
The Incompatible Spouse
12. Romance and Adultery
Romantic Love and Divorce, 1750-90
Adultery and Domesticity in the 1790s
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography of Primary Sources
Index