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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781400822089
035 _a(DE-B1597)446122
035 _a(OCoLC)979578425
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050 4 _aHN90.M6 B45 1997
072 7 _aHIS036040
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082 0 4 _a973.5
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aBeisel, Nicola Kay
_eautore
245 1 0 _aImperiled Innocents :
_bAnthony Comstock and Family Reproduction in Victorian America /
_cNicola Kay Beisel.
250 _aCourse Book
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[1998]
264 4 _c©1998
300 _a1 online resource (288 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aPrinceton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives ;
_v67
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --
_tONE. Introduction: Family Reproduction, Children's Morals, and Censorship --
_tTWO. The City, Sexuality, and the Suppression of Abortion and Contraception --
_tTHREE. Moral Reform and the Protection of Youth --
_tFOUR. Anthony Comstock versus Free Love: Religion, Marriage, and the Victorian Family --
_tFIVE. Immigrants, City Politics, and Censorship in New York and Boston --
_tSIX. Censorious Quakers and the Failure of the Anti-Vice Movement in Philadelphia --
_tSEVEN. Morals versus Art --
_tEIGHT. Conclusion: Focus on the Family --
_tNOTES --
_tBIBLIOGRAPHY --
_tINDEX
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aMoral 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 contraception, 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. Drawing on Victorian accounts of pregnant girls, prostitutes, 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. The rhetoric of morality, she maintains, is more than symbolic and goes beyond efforts to control mass behavior. For the Victorians, it tapped into the fear that their own children could fall prey to vice and ultimately live in disgrace. 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. One tactic was to link moral corruption with the flood of immigrants, which succeeded in New York and Boston, where minorities posed a political threat to 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.
530 _aIssued also in print.
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 30. Aug 2021)
650 0 _aCensorship
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aChild rearing
_xMoral and ethical aspects.
650 0 _aSocial mobility
_zUnited States.
650 7 _aHISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
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