Product Description: Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds, Third Edition discusses the many works that have been banned over the centuries because they offended or merely ignored official truths; challenged widely held assumptions; or contained ideas or language unacceptable to a state, religious institution, or private moral watchdog...read more

Product Description: A completely original exploration of the abstinence movement in America — from alcohol to sex to meat. America's long love affair with abstinence goes back to the early nineteenth century, when thousands of men and women suddenly stopped drinking hard liquor...read more

Product Description: A completely original exploration of abstinence movements in America — from alcohol to sex to meat. Over the last two hundred years, Americans have sworn off alcohol, masturbation, spicy foods, fatty foods, pickles, coffee, tea, drugs, sex, meat, and more...read more

Product Description: When, in 1903, Robert Hunter, a social worker from Indiana, married the daughter of one of the richest men in America, the press took notice. When it was revealed that the young couple would forsake the luxuries of their Manhattan mansion to live in a slum neighborhood in order to serve the poor, this was front-page news...read more

Product Description: Book by Leacock, Stephen

Product Description: Delinquent Daughters explores the gender, class, and racial tensions that fueled campaigns to control female sexuality in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. Mary Odem looks at these moral reform movements from a national perspective, but she also undertakes a detailed analysis of court records to explore the local enforcement of regulatory legislation in Alameda and Los Angeles Counties in California...read more