Imperiled innocents (Record no. 162693)
| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 02726nam a2200385Ia 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 306/.0973 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Beisel, Nicola Kay. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Imperiled innocents |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Princeton, N.J. : |
| Name of publisher | Princeton University Press, |
| Year of publication | c1997. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | x, 275 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill. |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Princeton studies in American politics |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | 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. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Child rearing |
| Topical Term | Censorship |
| Topical Term | Social mobility |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10031953 |
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