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Impotence : a cultural history.
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ISBN: 9780226500768 0226500764 Year: 2007 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago press

Birth control in nineteenth-century England
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ISBN: 0856645044 9780856645044 Year: 1978 Publisher: London : Croom Helm,

Sexuality and social order: the debate over the fertility of women and workers in France 1770-1920
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ISBN: 9780841907447 0841907447 Year: 1983 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Holmes and Meier,

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Reproductive rituals : the perception of fertility in England from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth century
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ISBN: 0416374603 9780416374605 Year: 1984 Volume: 875 Publisher: London : Methuen,

A history of contraception: from Antiquity to the present day
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ISBN: 0631167110 0631187294 9780631167112 9780631187295 Year: 1990 Volume: vol *9 Publisher: Oxford: Blackwell,

The trials of masculinity : policing sexual boundaries, 1870-1930
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ISBN: 1299104584 0226500691 9780226500690 0226500675 0226500683 Year: 1997 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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In this path-breaking history of manhood and masculinity, Angus McLaren examines how nineteenth- and twentieth-century western society created what we now take to be the traditional model of the heterosexual male. "Inherently interesting. . . . Exhibitionism, pornography, and deception all have their place here."-Library Journal "An appealing wealth of evidence of what trials can reveal about the boundaries of men's roles around the turn of the century."-Kirkus Reviews "It is difficult to imagine a better guide to the most notorious scandals of our great-grandparents' day."-Graham Rosenstock, Lambda Book Report


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Our own master race
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ISBN: 1442623314 9781442623316 9781442659643 1442659645 9781442659643 1442655879 Year: 2014 Publisher: Toronto, Ontario

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Was Canada immune to the racist currents of thought that swept central Europe in the 1920's and 1930's? In this landmark book Angus McLaren, co-author of The Bedroom and the State, examines the pervasiveness in Canada of the eugenic notion of "race betterment" and demonstrates that many Canadians believed that radical measures were justified to protect the community from the "degenerate." The sterilization of the feeble-minded in Alberta and British Columbia was merely the most dramatic attempt to limit the numbers of the "unfit." But in the decades prior to World War Two, eugenic preoccupations were to colour discussions of immigration restriction, birth control, mental testing, family allowances, and a host of similar social policies. Doctors, psychiatrists, geneticists, social workers, and mental hygienists provided an anxious Canadian middle class with the reassuring argument that poverty, crime, prostitution, and mental retardation were primarily the products of defective genes, not a defective social system. In explaining why biological solutions were sought for social problems McLaren not only provides a provocative reappraisal of the ideas and activities of a generation of feminists, political progressives, and public health propagandists but he also explores some of the roots of our not-so-latent racist tendencies.


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Reproduction by Design : Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-Tube Babies in Interwar Britain
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ISBN: 1280126299 9786613530158 0226560716 9780226560717 9781280126291 9780226560694 0226560694 Year: 2012 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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Modernity in interwar Europe frequently took the form of a preoccupation with mechanizing the natural; fears and fantasies revolved around the notion that the boundaries between people and machines were collapsing. Reproduction in particular became a battleground for those debating the merits of the modern world. That debate continues today, and to understand the history of our anxieties about modernity, we can have no better guide than Angus McLaren. In Reproduction by Design, McLaren draws on novels, plays, science fiction, and films of the 1920s and '30s, as well as the work of biologists, psychiatrists, and sexologists, to reveal surprisingly early debates on many of the same questions that shape the conversation today: homosexuality, recreational sex, contraception, abortion, euthanasia, sex change operations, and in vitro fertilization. Here, McLaren brings together the experience and perception of modernity with sexuality, technology, and ecological concerns into a cogent discussion of science's place in reproduction in British and American cultural history.


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Playboys and Mayfair men : crime, class, masculinity, and fascism in 1930s London
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ISBN: 1421423480 9781421423487 9781421423470 1421423472 Year: 2017 Publisher: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press,

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In his gripping depiction of Mayfair's celebrity high life, McLaren describes the crime in detail, as well as the police investigation, the suspects, their trial, and the aftermath of their convictions.


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The sexual politics of reproduction in Britain
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