A concept that originated in the mid-nineteenth century, free love meant an absence of legal ties rather than promiscuity, as frequently misunderstood and more frequently charged in the anti-socialist ...

Excerpted from "Good Sex: Transforming America Through the New Gender and Cultural Revolution" by Catherine M. Roach (Indiana University Press, 2022). Reprinted with permission. America as ...

A topless woman is taken from behind, steadying herself against a hay wagon, as if the couple had paused mid-task. Her late-19th-century garb is half undone, but her sun hat unperturbed. This scene — ...