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Outrages

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

Outrages

By Naomi Wolf

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About the book

The bestselling author of Vagina illuminates a dramatic history - how a single English law in 1857 led to a maelstrom, with reverberations lasting down to our day. That law was the Obscene Publications Act and it was a crucial turning point. Why? Because dissent and morality; 'deviancy' and 'normalcy'; unprintable and printable were suddenly lawful concepts in the modern sense. This new law effectively invented modern obscenity. Before 1857 it wasn't 'homosexuality' - a term that didn't yet exis...Show more

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9780349004082

Publisher

Little, Brown Book Group

Published year

2019

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1

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Hardcover

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