Bibliograph

Outrages, sex, censorship, and the criminalization of love, Naomi Wolf

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Outrages, sex, censorship, and the criminalization of love, Naomi Wolf

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Outrages

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1079402056

Responsibility statement

Naomi Wolf

Sub title

sex, censorship, and the criminalization of love

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"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of 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

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