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020			_z069102779X (cloth : alk. paper)
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100	1		_aBeisel, Nicola Kay.
245	1	0	_aImperiled innocents _h[electronic resource] : _bAnthony Comstock and family reproduction in Victorian America / _cNicola Beisel.
260			_aPrinceton, N.J. : _bPrinceton University Press, _cc1997.
300			_ax, 275 p. : _bill.
490	1		_aPrinceton studies in American politics
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [255]-268) and index.
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 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.
533			_aElectronic reproduction. _bPalo Alto, Calif. : _cebrary, _d2013. _nAvailable via World Wide Web. _nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
600	1	0	_aComstock, Anthony, _d1844-1915.
650		0	_aChild rearing _xMoral and ethical aspects.
650		0	_aCensorship _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aSocial mobility _zUnited States.
651		0	_aUnited States _xMoral conditions _xHistory _y19th century.
651		0	_aUnited States _xSocial life and customs _y1865-1918.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
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830		0	_aPrinceton studies in American politics.
856	4	0	_uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10031953 _zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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