Download or read book Regulating Passion written by Kelly A. Ryan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title examines how the American Revolution changed the nature of patriarchal rule by shattering old ways of penalizing and publishing illicit sexual behaviour and more people embarked on policing the sexual morality of society.