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Governing pleasures: pornography and social change in England, 1815-1914
Lisa Z. Sigel
Year: c2002.
Publisher:  Rutgers University Press. 
© Rutgers University Press
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table of contents
Copyright and Permissions
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Sexual Imaginings
Chapter 1: Revolutionary Pornography
Pornography as a Political Act
William Dugdale and the Production of Revolution
The Audience: Debased Aristocracy or the English Working Class?
The Literature: Republican Virtues
Bucolic Pleasures and Old Corruption
The Imaginary Harem and the Problems of Sodomy
The Exquisite and the Failures of Republican Sexual Politics
New Political Rights on Old Politicized Bodies
Chapter 2: Sexuality Raw and Cooked: Empirical and Imperial Pornography
Of Cannibals
The Politics of Production and Consumption
Ashbee and Scientific Legitimacy
The Kama Sutra and the Search for the Exotic
The Problem with Physiological Explanations
Reconstructing the Body's Politics: Phallic Worship and Flagellation
Science and Sexuality
Chapter 3: The Pearl before Swine: Fetishism and Consumer Culture
[Intro]
Publishers and Distribution Networks
Audience
Literary Patterns: The Fiction and The Fetish
Chapter 4: Filth in the Wrong People's Hands: Postcards and the Expansion of Pornography
[Intro]
The Rise of the Pornographic Postcard and the Expansion of Access
Major Themes in Pornographic Postcards
The Social Impact of an Expanded Audience
Objects, Subjects, and Social Control
Conclusion: Sexuality Re-imagined
Notes
Introduction: Sexual Imaginings
Chapter 1: Revolutionary Pornography
Chapter 2: Sexuality Raw and Cooked
Chapter 3: The Pearl before Swine
Chapter 4: Filth in the Wrong People's Hands
Conclusion: Sexuality Re-imagined
References
Manuscript Sources
Fawcett Library Papers
Public Records Office
Private Collections
Library and Museum Collections
Primary Sources (Nonpornographic)
Primary Sources (Pornographic)
Secondary Sources
Index
About the Author
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Title: Governing pleasures : pornography and social change in England, 1815-1914 Lisa Z. Sigel.
Author: Sigel, Lisa Z., 1965-
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Sigel, Lisa Z., 1965-
Piscataway, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, c2002.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.90003
Subject Headings: • Pornography -- England -- History -- 19th century
• England -- Social conditions -- 19th century
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