HIS 184 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Comstock Laws, Fetus, Economic Mobility
Document Summary
Sexuality moves from the public to private realms of life. After american revolution 1775-1783, the small stable communities of colonial. New england changes since the market revolution emerges in the 19/20thth century. Market revolution does not take place in the enslaved south labor system. Beginning in the 1820s, there is a growth in immigrants: daily life is different and complex. People are not living in communities where people do not know everyone in urban populations. As a result, the family receives increasing pressure to regulate sexuality, which becomes more privatized. How do we see many americans in the 19th century gain control of fertility: there is a knowledge based shift that emerges in the end of the 18th century. They learned about the role of the sperm, embryo, and eggs as a function of scientific: isomorphic model of the body: there was a 1 sex model of the body. Significant scientific dissection takes place of enslaved people: 1876, self theory.
