{"product_id":"regulating-desire-j-shoshanna-ehrlich-9781438453040","title":"Regulating Desire: From the Virtuous Maiden to the Purity Princess","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamines the organized efforts to reshape the law relating to young women's sexuality in the United States.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStarting with the mid-nineteenth-century campaign by the American Female Moral Reform Society to criminalize seduction and moving forward to the late twentieth-century conservative effort to codify a national abstinence-only education policy, \u003ci\u003eRegulating Desire\u003c\/i\u003e explores the legal regulation of young women's sexuality in the United States. The book covers five distinct time periods in which changing social conditions generated considerable public anxiety about youthful female sexuality and examines how successive generations of reformers sought to revise the law in an effort to manage unruly desires and restore a gendered social order. J. Shoshanna Ehrlich draws upon a rich array of primary source materials, including reform periodicals, court cases, legislative hearing records, and abstinence curricula to create an interdisciplinary narrative of socially embedded legal change. Capturing the complex and dynamic nature of the relationship between the state and the sexualized youthful female body, she highlights how the law both embodies and shapes gendered understandings of normative desire as mediated by considerations of race and class.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. Shoshanna Ehrlich\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1438453043\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781438453040\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/02\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d","brand":"J. Shoshanna Ehrlich","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48088256020735,"sku":"9781438453040","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6c86dddc-4b5f-48e2-81a4-8a9aeeedef06.jpg?v=1769103899","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/regulating-desire-j-shoshanna-ehrlich-9781438453040","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}