Documenting United States History

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reproductive consequences, advocates of the new chastity had to contend with
the permeation of the erotic throughout American culture, the expansive and var-
ied roles available to American women, and a contraceptive technology that sus-
tained the nonprocreative meanings of sexual behavior. A new sexual system that
harkened back to a vanished world could not simply be wished into existence....
—John D’emilio and estelle Freedman, Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in
America (Chicago: University of Chicago press, 1998).

Using the excerpts, complete the following three tasks:


  1. Briefly explain one major difference between Lassiter’s and D’Emilio/Freedman’s his-
    torical interpretations of entitlement in America.

  2. Briefly explain how one document from the time period not explicitly mentioned in
    the excerpts could be used to support either excerpt.

  3. Briefly explain how one document from Chapter 22 could be used to support the
    excerpt you did not choose in question 2.


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