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[[File: Bachelors_and_Bunnies.jpg|200px|left|thumbnail|Bachelors and Bunnies: The Sexual Politics of Playboy by Carrie Pitzulo]]These are our Top Ten History of Sex books (American Version). American notions of sexuality have dramatically changed throughout its history. These books seek to explain and place American views of sex in an historical perspective. As per usual, we included some caveats and and explanations for our selections.
First, this is a history of sex / history of sexuality list. We understand that there is a distinction but, for us, these two things blur together. Unlike other people, we do not see them as entirely separate areas of inquiry. Whatever. They clearly overlap, and we’re not interested in trying to separate them for the purposes of our booklist (American Version).
Second, the so-obvious-they-don’t-need-a-place-on-the-list titles: Michel Foucault’s ''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679724699/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0679724699&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=VXMNBNMJQCL35NIZ History of Sexuality : Volume I ]'' and John D’Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman’s ''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226923800/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0226923800&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=7XLOEXDRM4T5NC3C Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America]''. Foucault’s book arguable does not belong on an American history of sex booklist, but his book is still the goliath in the field and we need to acknowledge it. Basically, when people think American sexual history they think of Intimate Matters. Since you are already thinking of them, we are leaving them off.
Third, as per usual these books are not in any particular order.
#Margot Canaday, ''''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691149933/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0691149933&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=AZKWVU7VAFANKMHC The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America'']'' (Princeton University Press, 2011).#George Chauncey, ''''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465026214/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0465026214&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=5I4ZNWRB6M65LKPM Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World'']'' (Basic Books, 1995)#Carol Groneman, ''''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393322424/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0393322424&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=CMLQJYQXBVLC2YRC Nymphomania: A History'']'' (W.W. Norton & Company, 2001)#Carolyn Herbst-Lewis, ''''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1469609827/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1469609827&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=VMV3U25MTMRD5ILJ Prescription for Heterosexuality: Sexual Citizenship in the Cold War Era'']'' (UNC Press, 2013)#Martha Hodes, ''''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300077505/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0300077505&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=D3PNKFPMBTDG45T3 White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South'']'' (Yale University Press, 1999)#Janice Irvine, ''''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0877228981/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0877228981&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=KYZ4Y47CHN7LIYZ5 Disorders of Desire: Sex and Gender in Modern American Sexology'']'' (Temple University Press, 2005)#Susan E. Klepp, ''''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807859923/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807859923&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=QNKN3GBBFLVJ5A2I Revolutionary Conceptions: Women, Fertility, and Family Limitation in America, 1760-1820'']'' (UNC Press, 2009) #Mary Odem, ''''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807845280/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807845280&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=6UEIQ63BDCP7TZDR Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920'']'' (UNC Press, 1995)#Carrie Pitzulo, ''''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226670066/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0226670066&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=BLLOVKKHP6BK5IDQ Bachelors and Bunnies: The Sexual Politics of Playboy'']'' (University of Chicago Press, 2011)#Jennifer Terry, ''''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004I5BNA4/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B004I5BNA4&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=SNJLYUUGVEYAL7RI An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society'']'' (University of Chicago, 1999)
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