| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Sex among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730–1830. By Clare A. Lyons. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xii, 420 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-3004-6. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-8078-5675-4.)

The role of sexuality in establishing the modern state is the subject of this stunning work on the sexual behavior and culture of the early republic. Clare A. Lyons illuminates how the personal became political as women of a lusty sexual agency, operating in a boisterous, bawdy, nonmarital culture of pleasure, were restrained and the culture transformed, to resolve a postrevolutionary crisis of authority in favor of traditional gender, class, and racial hierarchies. In fear of liberating and equalizing forces and ideas, white men shored up their power by constructing a normative sexuality that naturalized the subordination of the poor, blacks, and women of all groups.

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