04330oam 2200829Ia 450 991078005860332120231024205814.01-4008-0052-81-282-75311-897866127531141-4008-2208-41-4008-1097-310.1515/9781400822089(CKB)111056486501384(EBL)581562(OCoLC)700688434(SSID)ssj0000177126(PQKBManifestationID)11168732(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000177126(PQKBWorkID)10209941(PQKB)11119797(SSID)ssj0000438027(PQKBManifestationID)11317091(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000438027(PQKBWorkID)10449103(PQKB)11382158(OCoLC)614662624(MdBmJHUP)muse35979(DE-B1597)446122(OCoLC)979578425(OCoLC)984545519(DE-B1597)9781400822089(Au-PeEL)EBL581562(CaPaEBR)ebr10031953(CaONFJC)MIL275311(iGPub)PUPB0000791(MiAaPQ)EBC581562(EXLCZ)9911105648650138419960430h19971997 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierImperiled innocents Anthony Comstock and family reproduction in Victorian America /Nicola BeiselPrinceton, N.J. :Princeton University Press,1997.©19971 online resource (x, 275 pages) illustrationsPrinceton studies in American politics0-691-02778-1 0-691-02779-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-268) and index.Front matter --CONTENTS --ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --ONE. Introduction: Family Reproduction, Children's Morals, and Censorship --TWO. The City, Sexuality, and the Suppression of Abortion and Contraception --THREE. Moral Reform and the Protection of Youth --FOUR. Anthony Comstock versus Free Love: Religion, Marriage, and the Victorian Family --FIVE. Immigrants, City Politics, and Censorship in New York and Boston --SIX. Censorious Quakers and the Failure of the Anti-Vice Movement in Philadelphia --SEVEN. Morals versus Art --EIGHT. Conclusion: Focus on the Family --NOTES --BIBLIOGRAPHY --INDEXMoral 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.Princeton studies in American politics.Child rearingMoral and ethical aspectsCensorshipUnited StatesHistory19th centurySocial mobilityUnited StatesUnited StatesMoral conditionsHistory19th centuryUnited StatesSocial life and customs1865-1918Child rearingMoral and ethical aspects.CensorshipHistorySocial mobility306/.0973Beisel Nicola Kay1464738MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780058603321Imperiled innocents3674540UNINA