Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality

by Judith Giesberg

Book Overview

Civil War soldiers enjoyed unprecedented access to obscene materials of all sorts, including mass-produced erotic fiction, cartes de visite, playing cards, and stereographs. A perfect storm of antebellum legal, technological, and commercial developments, coupled with the concentration of men fed into armies, created a demand for, and a deluge of, pornography in the military camps. Illicit materials entered in haversacks, through the mail, or...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469652072
• ISBN13: 9781469652078
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.8" x 8.8"