“You're writing a history of sex? The whole of it?” Rebecca L. Davis, a professor of history at the University of Delaware, was asked several times in recent years. Her response is a chronicle of how cultural forces have shaped America's understanding of sex, sexuality, and gender expression, from 17th-century Jamestown to the decision. Those forces have included race, religion, science, the law, language, economics, publishing, the postal system, the growth of cities, immigration, education, social justice movements, disease, war, the military, the internet. Davis gives us chapters on slavery, Native American kinship structures, Mormon and Oneida communities, homosexuality in the Wild West, the rise
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