Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-281) and index.
Contents: Protection of home and hearth: sex outside marriage -- Crime that had no name: narratives of gay and lesbian sex -- Of concubine and mistress -- Business of sex -- Promise her anything: seduction and its benefits -- Wages of sex: child support, abortion, and infanticide -- Suffer the children: incest and child rape -- Pig farmer's daughter: rape and rumors of rape.
1st Vintage Books edition