Governing Morals: A Social History of Moral Regulation

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1. The theory and politics of moral regulation 2. Compulsion to virtue: societies for the reformation of manners and the prosecution of vice 3. Moral regulation from above: the vice society 4. From sexual purity to social hygiene, 1870-1918 5. Moral regulation in America 6. Sexual purity, maternal feminism and class in late-Victorian Britain 7. Traditionalizing moral regulation: making sense of contemporary moral politics.