001479393 000__ 05152nam\a22008055i\4500 001479393 001__ 1479393 001479393 003__ DE-B1597 001479393 005__ 20231026035024.0 001479393 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001479393 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001479393 008__ 221201t20022002mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001479393 020__ $$a9780674275256 001479393 0247_ $$a10.4159/9780674275256$$2doi 001479393 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)617425 001479393 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1294425979 001479393 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001479393 0410_ $$aeng 001479393 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001479393 072_7 $$aHIS037030$$2bisacsh 001479393 08204 $$a364.16/5$$221 001479393 1001_ $$aMcLaren, Angus, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001479393 24510 $$aSexual Blackmail :$$bA Modern History /$$cAngus McLaren. 001479393 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA : $$bHarvard University Press, $$c[2002] 001479393 264_4 $$c©2002 001479393 300__ $$a1 online resource (352 p.) 001479393 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001479393 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001479393 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001479393 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001479393 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tCONTENTS -- $$tILLUSTRATIONS -- $$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $$tINTRODUCTION -- $$t1 SODOMY AND THE INVENTION OF BLACKMAIL -- $$t2 THE MODERN MANIA FOR MORALITY -- $$t3 WOMANIZING ACROSS CLASS LINES -- $$t4 ENTRAPPING THE JAZZ-AGE AMERICAN MALE -- $$t5 THE HOMOSEXUAL TARGET BETWEEN THE WARS -- $$t6 EXPLOITING RACIAL ANXIETIES -- $$t7 BLACKMAIL AND THE NEW WOMAN -- $$t8 CAUTIONARY TALES OF ADULTERY AND ABORTION -- $$t9 DISARMING THE POSTWAR BLACKMAILER -- $$t10 THE GAY MOVEMENT'S ATTACK ON VICTIMIZATION -- $$t11 FROM BLACKMAIL TO TABLOID EXPOSÉ -- $$tCONCLUSION -- $$tNOTES -- $$tINDEX 001479393 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001479393 520__ $$aSexual blackmail first reached public notice in the late eighteenth century when laws against sodomy were exploited by the unscrupulous to extort money from those they could entrap. Angus McLaren chronicles this parasitic crime, tracing its expansion in England and the United States through the Victorian era and into the first half of the twentieth century. The labeling of certain sexual acts as disreputable, if not actually criminal--abortion, infidelity, prostitution, and homosexuality--armed would-be blackmailers and led to a crescendo of court cases and public scandals in the 1920s and 1930s. As the importance of sexual respectability was inflated, so too was the spectacle of its loss. Charting the rise and fall of sexual taboos and the shifting tides of shame, McLaren enables us to survey evolving sexual practices and discussions. He has mined the archives to tell his story through a host of fascinating characters and cases, from male bounders to designing women, from badger games to gold diggers, from victimless crimes to homosexual outing. He shows how these stories shocked, educated, entertained, and destroyed the lives of their victims. He also demonstrates how muckraking journalists, con men, and vengeful women determined the boundaries of sexual respectability and damned those considered deviant. Ultimately, the sexual revolution of the 1960s blurred the long-rigid lines of respectability, leading to a rapid decline of blackmail fears. This fascinating view of the impact of regulating sexuality from the late Victorian Age to our own time demonstrates the centrality of blackmail to sexual practices, deviance, and the law. 001479393 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001479393 546__ $$aIn English. 001479393 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) 001479393 650_0 $$aExtortion$$zEngland$$xHistory. 001479393 650_0 $$aExtortion$$zUnited States$$xHistory. 001479393 650_0 $$aSexual ethics$$zEngland$$xHistory. 001479393 650_0 $$aSexual ethics$$zUnited States$$xHistory. 001479393 650_7 $$aHISTORY / Modern / General.$$2bisacsh 001479393 655_0 $$aElectronic books 001479393 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tHarvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013$$z9783110442205 001479393 852__ $$bebk 001479393 85640 $$3De Gruyter$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674275256$$zOnline Access 001479393 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1479393$$pGLOBAL_SET 001479393 912__ $$a978-3-11-044220-5 Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013$$c2000$$d2013 001479393 912__ $$aEBA_BACKALL 001479393 912__ $$aEBA_CL_HICS 001479393 912__ $$aEBA_EBACKALL 001479393 912__ $$aEBA_EBKALL 001479393 912__ $$aEBA_ECL_HICS 001479393 912__ $$aEBA_EEBKALL 001479393 912__ $$aEBA_ESSHALL 001479393 912__ $$aEBA_PPALL 001479393 912__ $$aEBA_SSHALL 001479393 912__ $$aGBV-deGruyter-alles 001479393 912__ $$aPDA11SSHE 001479393 912__ $$aPDA13ENGE 001479393 912__ $$aPDA17SSHEE 001479393 912__ $$aPDA5EBK 001479393 980__ $$aBIB 001479393 980__ $$aEBOOK 001479393 982__ $$aEbook 001479393 983__ $$aOnline