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Against Sex gender and american culture Mary Kelley, editor Editorial Advisory Board Jane Sherron De Hart John D’Emilio Linda K. Kerber Annelise Orleck Nell Irvin Painter Janice Radway Robert Reid- Pharr Noliwe Rooks Barbara Sicherman Cheryl Wall Emerita Board Members Cathy N. Davidson Thadious M. Davis Sara Evans Annette Kolodny Wendy Martin Guided by feminist and antiracist perspectives, this series examines the construction and influence of gender and sexuality within the full range of Amer i ca’s cultures. Investigating in deep context the ways in which gender works with and against such markers as race, class, and region, the series pre sents outstanding interdisciplinary scholarship, including works in history, literary studies, religion, folklore, and the visual arts. In so doing, Gender and American Culture seeks to reveal how identity and community are shaped by gender and sexuality. A complete list of books published in Gender and American Culture is available at www . uncpress . org. Against Sex Identities of Sexual Restraint in Early Amer i ca Kara M. French The University of North Carolina Press chapel hill This book was published with the assistance of the Authors Fund of the University of North Carolina Press. © 2021 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Set in Merope Basic by Westchester Publishing Ser vices Manufactured in the United States of Amer i ca The University of North Carolina Press has been a member of the Green Press Initiative since 2003. Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: French, Kara M., author. Title: Against sex : identities of sexual restraint in early America / Kara M. French. Other titles: Gender & American culture. Description: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021] | Series: Gender and American culture | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: lccn 2020051251 | iSBn 9781469662138 (cloth) | iSBn 9781469662145 (paperback) | iSBn 9781469662152 (ebook) Subjects: lcSh: Shakers—United States—History—19th century. | Catholic Church—United States—History—19th century. | Sex customs—United States—History—19th century. | Sexual ethics— United States—History—19th century. | Sexual abstinence— Religious aspects. | Grahamites. Classification: lcc hQ18.u5 F73 2021 | ddc 613.9—dc23 lc record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020051251 Cover illustration: Shakers at Lebanon, 1830, courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society; pale old yellow paper background © iStock. com / Paladin12. Portions of chapter 1 were previously printed in a dif er ent form as “Prejudice for Profit: Escaped Nun Stories and American Catholic Print Culture,” Journal of the Early Republic 39, no. 3 (Fall 2019); it is © 2019 Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, all rights reserved. Portions of chapter 4 were previously printed in a dif er ent form as “You Can Be a Catholic If You Want: Protestant Social Capital and Catholic Education in the Antebellum Era,” U.S. Catholic Historian 35, no. 3 (Summer 2017); it is © 2017 The Catholic University of Amer i ca Press. For my family This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowl edgments  xi Introduction  1 chapter one Vinegar- Faced Sisters and Male Monsters 20 The Gender of Sexual Restraint chapter two Identities of Sexual Restraint  48 chapter three Breaking and Remaking the Family  72 chapter Four Alterative Extracts 9 4 Sexual Restraint in the Antebellum Marketplace chapter Five Performing Sexual Restraint  123 Conclusion  147 Notes  155 Bibliography  183 Index  203 This page intentionally left blank Figures 1.1 “Cecile Taking the Veil”  27 1.2 “The Sacrifice”  28 1.3 “The Great Republican Reform Party”  35 3.1 Mary Antoinette Doolittle 77 3.2 Shaker sewing case 89 4.1 Broadside for Shaker medicines 96 4.2 Mid-n ineteenth- century medical advertisement, Egyptian Regulator Tea  101 4.3 Mid-n ineteenth- century medical advertisement, Hindoo Deafness Cure 101 4.4 Shaker labels  104 5.1 Broadside advertising “Black Shakers” 124 5.2 “Shakers, Their Mode of Worship”  128 5.3 Lebanon Springs guidebook  137

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