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Article: Imperiled Innocents: Anthony Comstock and Family Reproduction in Victorian America.(Review)
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- Journal of Social History
- Article date:
- December 22, 1998
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By Nicola Beisel (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1997. x plus 275pp. $35.00).
Nicola Beisel has written an important book that will be of interest to historians and sociologists of childhood, family, obscenity, nineteenth-century reform movements, and the process of cultural reproduction. The argument of Imperilled Innocents transverses all of these areas and adds immeasurably to the theoretical and historical records of each.
Beisel questions the assertion that one man, Anthony Comstock, could effectively censor discussions of birth control, free love, and sexuality, as well as curtail the production of pornography and limit public ...