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Originally published in 1978, this title contends that the great interest of the 19th-century birth control debate is that it reveals that there was not a growing consensus of opinion on the question of family planning but rather two cultural confrontations.

Originally published in 1984 Reproductive Ritual examines fertility and re-production in pre-industrial England. This book provides a detailed understanding of historical attitudes towards conception family planning in pre-industrial England.

Originally published in 1984 Reproductive Ritual examines fertility and re-production in pre-industrial England. This book provides a detailed understanding of historical attitudes towards conception family planning in pre-industrial England.

This bookm the first history of contraception for almost fifty years, provides a scholarly and highly readable account of procreation and attempts to prevent it from ancient Greece to the late twentieth century.

The shocking true story of a diamond theft gone wrong.

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From 1877 to 1892, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream murdered seven women, all prostitutes or patients seeking abortions, in England and North America. A Prescription for Murder begins with Angus McLaren's vividly detailed story of the killings. Using press reports and police dossiers, McLaren investigates the links between crime and respectability to reveal a remarkable range of Victorian sexual tensions and fears. McLaren explores how the roles of murd...

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This book provides a fascinating history of sexuality in twentieth-century Europe and North America. Angus McLaren draws upon legal, medical and literary sources to demonstrate how modern sexuality has been shaped by race, class, gender and generational preoccupations.

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Blackmail trials revealed that one's sexual reputation - that vague entity - had, in an increasingly commercial age, a definite monetary value. And as middle-class notions of sexual respectability emerged, so in tandem did sexual blackmail. Chronicling the emergence of this parasitic form of crime casts a fresh light on the history of sexual assault, prostitution, divorce, abortion, and homosexuality and provides striking evidence that when mo...