Sexual Blackmail: A Modern History

by Angus McLaren

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 Victorian era and into the first half of the twentieth century. The labeling of certain sexual acts as disreputable, if not actually criminal--abortion,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067400924X
• ISBN13: 9780674009240
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"