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Sexual blackmail : a modern history /

Sexual blackmail first reached public notice in the late eighteenth century when laws against sodomy were exploited by the unscrupulous to extort money from those they could entrap. Angus McLaren chronicles this parasitic crime, tracing its expansion in England and the United States through the Vict...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McLaren, Angus
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Sodomy and the Invention of Blackmail
  • 2. The Modern Mania for Morality
  • 3. Womanizing Across Class Lines
  • 4. Entrapping the Jazz-Age American Male
  • 5. The Homosexual Target between the Wars
  • 6. Exploiting Racial Anxieties
  • 7. Blackmail and the New Woman
  • 8. Cautionary Tales of Adultery and Abortion
  • 9. Disarming the Postwar Blackmailer
  • 10. The Gay Movement's Attack on Victimization
  • 11. From Blackmail to Tabloid Expose.