Outrages : sex, censorship and the criminalization of love / Naomi Wolf.

By: Material type: TextTextDescription: xvi, 364 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780544274020 (hardcover)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: OutragesDDC classification:
  • 821/.0093543 23
LOC classification:
  • PR508.H6 W65 2019
Contents:
A gentle angel -- "In memoriam arcadie" -- "A gentle angel enter'd" -- 1855 : leaves of grass -- Inventing the modern crime of obscenity -- The war against "filth" -- Civil divorce and the invention of sodomy as a crime against the state -- Formative scandals -- Calamus : "paths untrodden" -- Symonds' second scandal -- "Goblin market" : attraction and aversion -- The state seizes the female body -- Love and literature driven underground -- "I will go with him I love" -- Regina v. Hicklin : "to deprave and corrupt" -- Dangerous poems -- The anus and the state -- Criminalizing "effeminacy" : the arrests of Fanny and Stella -- "My constant companion" -- Comstock : censorship crosses the Atlantic -- Counter-campaigns and resistance -- The arrests of Simeon Solomon -- Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh -- "The Greek spirit" -- "Were I as free" : the secret sodomy poems -- Braveries -- Pilgrimage to Camden -- The Labouchere Amendment : "gross indecency" -- Prophets of modernity -- "The life-long love of comrades" -- "A problem in modern ethics" -- "As written by himself" -- Epilogue : afterlives.
Summary: "The best-selling author of Vagina, Give Me Liberty, and The End of America illuminates a dramatic buried story of gay history--how a single English law in 1857 led to a maelstrom, with reverberations lasting down to our day"--
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-348) and index.

A gentle angel -- "In memoriam arcadie" -- "A gentle angel enter'd" -- 1855 : leaves of grass -- Inventing the modern crime of obscenity -- The war against "filth" -- Civil divorce and the invention of sodomy as a crime against the state -- Formative scandals -- Calamus : "paths untrodden" -- Symonds' second scandal -- "Goblin market" : attraction and aversion -- The state seizes the female body -- Love and literature driven underground -- "I will go with him I love" -- Regina v. Hicklin : "to deprave and corrupt" -- Dangerous poems -- The anus and the state -- Criminalizing "effeminacy" : the arrests of Fanny and Stella -- "My constant companion" -- Comstock : censorship crosses the Atlantic -- Counter-campaigns and resistance -- The arrests of Simeon Solomon -- Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh -- "The Greek spirit" -- "Were I as free" : the secret sodomy poems -- Braveries -- Pilgrimage to Camden -- The Labouchere Amendment : "gross indecency" -- Prophets of modernity -- "The life-long love of comrades" -- "A problem in modern ethics" -- "As written by himself" -- Epilogue : afterlives.

"The best-selling author of Vagina, Give Me Liberty, and The End of America illuminates a dramatic buried story of gay history--how a single English law in 1857 led to a maelstrom, with reverberations lasting down to our day"--

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