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035			_a(DE-B1597)9780674275256
035			_a(DE-B1597)617425
035			_a(OCoLC)1294425979
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082	0	4	_a364.16/5 _221
084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aMcLaren, Angus _eautore
245	1	0	_aSexual Blackmail : _bA Modern History / _cAngus McLaren.
264		1	_aCambridge, MA : _bHarvard University Press, _c[2002]
264		4	_c©2002
300			_a1 online resource (352 p.)
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505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tCONTENTS -- _tILLUSTRATIONS -- _tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- _tINTRODUCTION -- _t1 SODOMY AND THE INVENTION OF BLACKMAIL -- _t2 THE MODERN MANIA FOR MORALITY -- _t3 WOMANIZING ACROSS CLASS LINES -- _t4 ENTRAPPING THE JAZZ-AGE AMERICAN MALE -- _t5 THE HOMOSEXUAL TARGET BETWEEN THE WARS -- _t6 EXPLOITING RACIAL ANXIETIES -- _t7 BLACKMAIL AND THE NEW WOMAN -- _t8 CAUTIONARY TALES OF ADULTERY AND ABORTION -- _t9 DISARMING THE POSTWAR BLACKMAILER -- _t10 THE GAY MOVEMENT’S ATTACK ON VICTIMIZATION -- _t11 FROM BLACKMAIL TO TABLOID EXPOSÉ -- _tCONCLUSION -- _tNOTES -- _tINDEX
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aSexual blackmail first reached public notice in the late eighteenth century when laws against sodomy were exploited by the unscrupulous to extort money from those they could entrap. Angus McLaren chronicles this parasitic crime, tracing its expansion in England and the United States through the Victorian era and into the first half of the twentieth century. The labeling of certain sexual acts as disreputable, if not actually criminal--abortion, infidelity, prostitution, and homosexuality--armed would-be blackmailers and led to a crescendo of court cases and public scandals in the 1920s and 1930s. As the importance of sexual respectability was inflated, so too was the spectacle of its loss. Charting the rise and fall of sexual taboos and the shifting tides of shame, McLaren enables us to survey evolving sexual practices and discussions. He has mined the archives to tell his story through a host of fascinating characters and cases, from male bounders to designing women, from badger games to gold diggers, from victimless crimes to homosexual outing. He shows how these stories shocked, educated, entertained, and destroyed the lives of their victims. He also demonstrates how muckraking journalists, con men, and vengeful women determined the boundaries of sexual respectability and damned those considered deviant. Ultimately, the sexual revolution of the 1960s blurred the long-rigid lines of respectability, leading to a rapid decline of blackmail fears. This fascinating view of the impact of regulating sexuality from the late Victorian Age to our own time demonstrates the centrality of blackmail to sexual practices, deviance, and the law.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022)
650		0	_aExtortion _zEngland _xHistory.
650		0	_aExtortion _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aSexual ethics _zEngland _xHistory.
650		0	_aSexual ethics _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		7	_aHISTORY / Modern / General. _2bisacsh
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.4159/9780674275256?locatt=mode:legacy
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674275256
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674275256/original
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