ISBN:
9781400822089
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1400822084
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (x, 275 p.)
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ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Princeton studies in American politics
Parallel Title:
Print version Imperiled innocents
DDC:
306/.0973
Keywords:
Comstock, Anthony 1844-1915 Comstock, Anthony
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Comstock, Anthony
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Comstock, Anthony
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Comstock, Anthony
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Comstock, Anthony
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Child rearing Moral and ethical aspects
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Censorship History
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19th century
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United States
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Social mobility United States
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Social mobility
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Censorship History 19th century
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Child rearing Moral and ethical aspects
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Censorship History 19th century
;
Social mobility
;
Child rearing Moral and ethical aspects
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Morals history
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Electronic books
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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HISTORY ; United States ; 19th Century
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Censorship
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Child rearing ; Moral and ethical aspects
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Manners and customs
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Moral conditions
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Social mobility
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Sozialreform
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Familie
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Gezinsvorming
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Sociale moraal
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Censuur
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Vooroordelen
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History
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United States Moral conditions
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History
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19th century
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United States Social life and customs
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1865-1918
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United States Social life and customs 1865-1918
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United States Moral conditions 19th century
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History
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United States Social life and customs 1865-1918
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United States Moral conditions 19th century
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History
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United States
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Moral reform movements claiming to protect children began to emerge in the United States over a century ago, most notably when Anthony Comstock and his supporters crusaded to restrict the circulation of contraceptive devices, information on the sexual rights of women, and "obscene" art and literature. Much of their rhetoric influences debates on issues surrounding children and sexuality today. In a book filled with Victorian accounts of pregnant girls, prostitutes, abortionists, Free Lovers, and others deemed "immoral," Nicola Beisel argues that rhetoric about the moral corruption of children speaks to an ongoing parental concern: that children will fail to replicate or exceed their parents' social position. In a rare analysis of Anthony Comstock's crusade with the New York and New England Societies for the Suppression of Vice, Beisel examines how the reformer worked on the anxieties of the upper classes. Showing how a moral crusade can bring a society's diffuse anxieties to focus on specific sources, Beisel offers a fresh theoretical approach to moral reform movements
Description / Table of Contents:
1. Introduction: Family Reproduction, Children's Morals, and Censorship2. The City, Sexuality, and the Suppression of Abortion and Contraception -- 3. Moral Reform and the Protection of Youth -- 4. Anthony Comstock versus Free Love: Religion, Marriage, and the Victorian Family -- 5. Immigrants, City Politics, and Censorship in New York and Boston -- 6. Censorious Quakers and the Failure of the Anti-Vice Movement in Philadelphia -- 7. Morals versus Art -- 8. Conclusion: Focus on the Family.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-268) and index. - Description based on print version record
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