Lyons, Sex Among The Rabble - An Intimate History Of Gender & Power In The Age Of Revolution

• Published in: Teaching history (Emporia, Kan.) Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 50 - 51
• Main Author: Reisinger, Andrew
• Format: Book Review Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ball State University Libraries 01.04.2007

Clare A. Lyons skillfully crafts a book exploring the evolution of power in colonial and early American Philadelphia. The author asserts that sexuality served as a key category in the formation, contestation, and regulation of gender, race, and class hierarchies and that contrary to popular understa...