Part I: Sexuality and Historical Meaning1. Passion and Power: An Introdtion - Kathy Peiss and Christina Simmons2. Sexual Matters: On Conceptualizing Sexuality in History - Robert A. PadgugPart II: The Emergence of Modern Sexuality, 1790 to 19303. "The Life of a Citizen in the Hands of a Woman": Sexual Assault in New York City, 1790 to 1820 - Marybeth Hamilton Arnold4. "Charity Girls" and City Pleasurer: Historical Notes on Working Class Sexuality, 1880-1920 - Kathy Peiss5. Movements of Affirmation: Sexual Meanings and Homosexual Identities - Jeffrey Weeks6. From Sexual Inversion to Homosexuality: The Changing Medical Conceptualization of Female "Deviance" - George Chauncey, Jr.
7. "We Were a Little Band of Willful Women": The Heterodoxy Club of Greenwich Village - Judith Schwartz, Kathy Peiss, and Christina Simmons8. The Black Community and the Birth Control Movement - Jessie M. RodriquePart III: Sexual Conflicts and Cultural Authority, 1920 to 19609. Modern Sexuality and the Myrh of Victorian Repression - Christina Simmons10. Venereal Disease: The Wages of Sin? - Elizabeth Fee11. "Uncontrolled Desires": The Response to the Sexual Psychopath, 1920-1960 - Estelle B. Freedman12.
The Homosexual Menace: The Politics of Sexuality in Cold War America - John D'Emilio13. The Reproduction of Butch-Fern Roles: A Social Constructionist Approach - Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline DavisPart IV: Private Passions and Public Debate, 1960 to the Present14. Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women Is Different - Ann Barr Snitow15. (De)Constructing Pornography: Feminisms in Conflict - Duphne Read16. Gay Villain, Gay Hero: Homosexuality and the Social Construction of AIDS - Robert A. Padgug.