• Acknowledgments


• Introduction: Patriarchy and Sexual Regulation




• Part One: Sexual Regulation and Patriarchy in the Late Colonial Era


• 1. "The Slaves of Hymen": White Women and the Insistence on Marriage


• 2. "The Passions are against You": White Men's Sexual Reputation


• 3. Racialized Patriarchy: Indians and African Americans in the Patriarchal Ideal


• Part Two: Challenging the Patriarchal Order


• 4. Hardy Men and Rustic Women: The Patriarchal Language of the Imperial Crisis


• 5. Dealing with Independence: The Patriarchal Gaze and the Crisis in Racialized Patriarchy


• 6. Making Chaste Citizens: Sexual Regulation and Reputation in the Early Republic


• 7. Seduced Women and Designing Men: Re-Fashioning the Sexual and Gendered Self


• 8. Scrutinizing Sexuality: Charity and the Patriarchal Gaze


• Conclusion: "Nothing But Our Rights": Patriarchy, Sexual Regulation, and Power


• Appendix


• Notes


• Manuscript Sources


• Index

Kelly A. Ryan is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University Southeast.

Regulating Passion examines how the American Revolution changed the nature of patriarchal rule by shattering old ways of penalizing and publishing illicit sexual behavior and more people embarked on policing the sexual morality of society.