Major Problems in American History series introduces the readers to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history. This volume contains a number of chapters with documents and essays about: Sexual cultures and encounters in the New World, regulating sexuality in the Anglo-American colonies, gender conflict and sex reform in the early nineteenth century, sexuality, race, and violence in slavery and freedom, love and initimacy in nineteenth-century America, free love, free speech, and sex consorship, prostitution and working-class sexuality, politics of reproduction, heterosexual norms and homosexual identities in popular culture, open secrets in Cold War cinema, sexual revolution, sexually transmitted diseases, and sexual identities, family matters, and border crossings in contemporary America.
This volume contains papers presented at the conference 'Were women present at the demographic transition' which was held at the Radboud University Nijmegen, 20-21 May 2005. The contributions describe the role women played in the fertility decline and the process of decision-making between husbands and wives.