LEADER 04355nam 2200841Ia 450 001 9910817099203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4008-0050-1 010 $a1-4008-0052-8 010 $a1-282-75311-8 010 $a9786612753114 010 $a1-4008-2208-4 010 $a1-4008-1097-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400822089 035 $a(CKB)111056486501384 035 $a(EBL)581562 035 $a(OCoLC)700688434 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000177126 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11168732 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000177126 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10209941 035 $a(PQKB)11119797 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000438027 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11317091 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000438027 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10449103 035 $a(PQKB)11382158 035 $a(OCoLC)614662624 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35979 035 $a(DE-B1597)446122 035 $a(OCoLC)979578425 035 $a(OCoLC)984545519 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400822089 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL581562 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10031953 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275311 035 $a(iGPub)PUPB0000791 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC581562 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486501384 100 $a19960430d1997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aImperiled innocents $eAnthony Comstock and family reproduction in Victorian America /$fNicola Beisel 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1997 215 $a1 online resource (x, 275 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aPrinceton studies in American politics 311 $a0-691-02778-1 311 $a0-691-02779-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [255]-268) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$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 330 $aMoral reform movements claiming to protect children began to emerge in the United States over a century ago, most notably when Anthony Comstock and his supporters crusaded to restrict the circulation of contraceptive devices, information on the sexual rights of women, and "obscene" art and literature. Much of their rhetoric influences debates on issues surrounding children and sexuality today. In a book filled with Victorian accounts of pregnant girls, prostitutes, abortionists, Free Lovers, and others deemed "immoral," Nicola Beisel argues that rhetoric about the moral corruption of children speaks to an ongoing parental concern: that children will fail to replicate or exceed their parents' social position. In a rare analysis of Anthony Comstock's crusade with the New York and New England Societies for the Suppression of Vice, Beisel examines how the reformer worked on the anxieties of the upper classes. Showing how a moral crusade can bring a society's diffuse anxieties to focus on specific sources, Beisel offers a fresh theoretical approach to moral reform movements. 410 0$aPrinceton studies in American politics. 606 $aChild rearing$xMoral and ethical aspects 606 $aCensorship$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSocial mobility$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xMoral conditions$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$xSocial life and customs$y1865-1918 615 0$aChild rearing$xMoral and ethical aspects. 615 0$aCensorship$xHistory 615 0$aSocial mobility 676 $a306/.0973 700 $aBeisel$b Nicola Kay$01619246 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817099203321 996 $aImperiled innocents$93951389 997 $aUNINA