The thorny path: pornography in early twentieth-century Britain / Jamie Stoops.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stoops, Jamie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pornography--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Pornography.

Pornography--Social aspects--Great Britain.

Pornography--Social aspects.

History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2018]

Contents:

Chapter 1 "Discreet and Careful" Pornography Producers, Distributors, and Consumers in Britain, 1900-1945 p. 18

Chapter 2 "An Enormous Business to Be Done" Britain in the Transnational Pornography Trade p. 59

Chapter 3 "Let the Picture Tell Its Own Story" Pornographic Content, 1900-1945 p. 93

Chapter 4 "No Public Danger, but a Matter More for Pity" The British Press and the Pornography Trade p. 138

Chapter 5 "No Background of Moral Standard' Vice Societies, Morality, and Anti-Pornography Campaigns p. 167

Chapter 6 "The Ultimate Decency of Things" The British State and the Policing of Pornography p. 200.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-288) and index.

ISBN:

0773554688

9780773554689

OCLC:

1031344396