Author: Nicola Kay Beisel
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0691027781
Imperiled Innocents
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 contraception, information on the sexual rights of women, and "obscene" art and literature. Medical books Imperiled Innocents. 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 Medical books Imperiled Innocents Beisel, Nicola. Description Preview Close Imperiled Innocents by Beisel, Nicola Title: Imperiled Innocents Author: Beisel, Nicola Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Copyright Date: 1996-12-23 ISBN: 069102779X Category: History:United States Qty Available: 1 Book Condition: Used: Very Good Jacket Condition: Very Good Edition: Signed: Binding: Hardcover Notes: Solid copy with no writing, highlighting, marks, or creased page corners. Faint spot on closed page edges. Cover corners and spine ends lightly bumped. Binding
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Medical Book Imperiled Innocents
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.
