Books like Sexual revolution in early America by Richard Godbeer

Sexual Politics examines how patriarchal bias shapes culture and literature, exploring gender roles, power structures, and social ethics in modern contexts.

Twentieth anniversary edition of a landmark book that cataloged a vibrant but disappearing neighborhood in New York City In the two decades that preceded the original publication of Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, Forty-second Street, then the most infamous street in America, was being remade into a sanitized tourist haven. In the forced disappearance of porn theaters, peep shows, and street hustlers to make room for a Disney store, a children’s theater, and large, neon-lit cafes, Samuel R. Delany saw a disappearance, not only of the old Times Square, but of the complex social relationships that developed there. Samuel R. Delany bore witness to the dismantling of the institutions that promoted points of contact between people of different classes and races in a public space, and in this hybrid text, argues for the necessity of public restrooms and tree-filled parks to a city's physical and psychological landscape. This twentieth anniversary edition includes a new foreword by Robert Reid-Pharr that traces the importance and continued resonances of Samuel R. Delany’s groundbreaking Times Square Red, Times Square Blue.

A pioneering study of 19th‑century American gender relations, examining male attitudes toward masculinity, women's roles and sexuality, and the social context that shaped sexual customs in the United States.

An illustrated scholarly study of how phallus imagery shaped politics, law, and gender in ancient Athens, revealing both its dominance and the early counter‑movement of feminism and anti‑militarism.

A scholarly study of how shifts in law, religion, and society from the 17th to early 19th centuries redefined sexual norms in Western culture.