Taken from several sources, including several classes which covered some aspect of gender, sexuality and American leisure and Gilded Age and Progressive Era prostitution reform.
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Beth Bailey, Sex in the Heartland, Harvard University Press: Cambridge, 1999
G.J. Barker-Bentfield, Horrors of the Half-Known Life: Male Attitudes Toward Woman and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century America, Harper and Row, New York, 1976
Gail Bederman, Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1995
Patricia Bonomi, The Lord Cornbury Scandal: The Politics of Reputation in British America, University of North Carolina Press, 2000
Kathleen Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia, University of North Carolina Press, 1996
Victoria Bynum, Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South, North Carolina Press, 1992
George Chauncy, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940, Basic Books, New York, 1994
Howard Chudacoff, The Age of the Bachelor: Creating an American Subculture, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1999
Mark Thomas Connelly, The Response to Prostitution in the Progressive Era, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1980
Drew Faust, Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, Vintage, 1997
Timothy Gilfoyle, City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1900, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1992
Carol Groneman, Nymphomania, A History, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2000
Kristen Hoganson, Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1998
John F. Kasson, Houdini, Tarzan and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America, Hill and Wang, New York, 2001
Regina Kunzel, Fallen Women, Problem Girls: Unmarried Mothers and the Professionalization of Social Work, 1890-1945, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1993
Barry Levy, Quakers and the American Family: British Settlement in the Delaware Valley, Oxford University Press, 1992
David Langum, Crossing Over the Line: Legislating Morality and The Mann Act, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1994
Thomas Mackey, Red Lights Out: A Legal History of Prostitution, Disorderly Houses, and Vice Districts, 1870-1917, Garland Publishing, New York, 1987
Rachel P. Maines, The Technology of Orgasm: “Hysteria,” the Vibrator, and Women’s Sexual Satisfaction, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1999
Barbara Melosh, Gender and American History Since 1890, Routledge, 1993
Ted Ownby, Subduing Satan: Religion, Recreation & Manhood in the Rural South, 1865-1920, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1990
David J. Pivar, Purity Crusade: Sexual Morality and Social Control, 1868-1900, Greenwood Press, London, 1973
David J. Pivar, Purity and Hygiene: Women, Prostitution, and the “American Plan,” 1900-1930, Greenwood Press, Westport, 2002
Madelon Powers, Faces Along the Bar: Lore and Order in the Workingman’s Saloon, 1870-1920, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1999
Ruth Rosen, The Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America, 1900-1918, John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1982
Christina Simmons, “Modern Sexuality and the Myth of Victorian Repression” in Gender and American History Since 1890, edited by Barbara Melosh, Routledge Press, New York, 1993
Christine Stansell, City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860, University of Illinois Press, Chicago, 1987
Sharon Ullman, Sex Seen: The Emergence of Modern Sexuality in America, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1997
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812, Vintage Press, 1991
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750, Vintage Press, 1991
LeeAnn Whites, The Civil War as a Crisis in Gender: Augusta, Georgia, 1860-1890, University of Georgia Press, Athens
Jessica L. Weiss, To Have and to Hold: Marriage, the Baby Boom and Social Change, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2000
Joel Williamson, A Rage for Order: Black-White Relations in the American South Since Emancipation, Oxford University Press, New York, 1986
