Books written by Angus McLaren

The Trials of Masculinity: Policing Sexual Boundaries, 1870-1930

27 Jordan was to his joy put in touch with " Alice May , " a twenty - two - yearold brown - eyed heiress , who was taken by his photograph and declared herself to be " especially interested in his position in the world of draughts .
Playboys and Mayfair Men: Crime, Class, Masculinity, and Fascism in 1930s London

One reviewer wearily said of the star, “Warner Baxter interprets one of those slick jewel burglars who are always depriving wealthy dowagers of their diamonds.”119 Similarly, in Sylvia Scarlett (1935, dir. George Cukor) the rascally ...
Reproductive Rituals: The Perception of Fertility in England from the Sixteenth Century to the Nineteenth Century

... Opera (Brunsvigae: Berolini, 1863–1900), XXIV, 625; Richard Baxter, A Christian Directory (London: n.p., 1673), IV, 52. 14John Weemse, An Exposition of the Moral Laws in Works (London: Bellamie, 1636), 87, 98; see also John Donne, ...
Our Own Master Race: Eugenics in Canada, 1885-1945

Ruth Schwartz Cowan, “Nature and Nurture: The Interplay of Biology and Politics in the Work of Francis Galton,” Studies in the History of Biology, 1 (1977), pp. 133– 208. 3. See Lyndsay Farrell's 1970 Indiana University Ph.D. thesis, ...
Sexual Blackmail: A Modern History

2 : 5 ; Robert Jackson , The Chief : The Biography of Gordon Hewart , Lord Chief Justice of England , 1922-40 ( London : Harrup , 1959 ) , pp . 176-177 . 12. PRO MEPO 3/923 , 24 . 13. Statements of Francis Lawrence Walsh , PRO MEPO ...
Impotence: A Cultural History

But as Angus McLaren shows us in Impotence, the first cultural history of the subject, the failure of men to rise to the occasion has been a recurrent topic since the dawn of human culture.
A History of Contraception: From Antiquity to the Present Day

A History of Contraception: From Antiquity to the Present Day
Birth Control in Nineteenth-century England

Birth Control in Nineteenth-century England
Reproductive Rituals: The Perception of Fertility in England from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century

There has been an assumption that fertility during the period was uncontrolled, but in this persuasive and perceptive study Angus McLaren shows both from anthropological research and form an impressive review of contemporary literature that ...
Impotence: A Cultural History

Consalción Isart Hernández (Madrid: Editorial Gredos, 1994), 4.57–61; Clement of Alexandria, “The Instructor,” [Paedagogus] in The Anti-Nicene Fathers, (Grand Rapids: Erdmans, 1951), 3.4; Saint Caesarius of Arles, Sermons, trans.
The Trials of Masculinity: Policing Sexual Boundaries, 1870-1930

. Exhibitionism, pornography, and deception all have their place here."—Library Journal "An appealing wealth of evidence of what trials can reveal about the boundaries of men's roles around the turn of the century."—Kirkus Reviews "It ...
The Trials of Masculinity: Policing Sexual Boundaries, 1870-1930

. Exhibitionism, pornography, and deception all have their place here."—Library Journal "An appealing wealth of evidence of what trials can reveal about the boundaries of men's roles around the turn of the century."—Kirkus Reviews "It ...
Reproductive Rituals: The Perception of Fertility in England from the Sixteenth Century to the Nineteenth Century

This book provides a detailed understanding of historical attitudes towards conception family planning in pre-industrial England.
A Prescription for Murder: The Victorian Serial Killings of Dr. Thomas Neill Cream

McLaren develops a historiographical survey on Victorian attitudes toward sexuality and morality, and their relation to violence as he describes the story of Dr. Thomas Cream.
Playboys and Mayfair Men: Crime, Class, Masculinity, and Fascism in 1930s London

E. F. Benson, a prolific homosexual writer, produced in The Freaks of Mayfair (1916) a series of humorous sketches, including one about a man regarded as an “aunt.” 43 In Three Hostages (1924), John Buchan used this district as the ...
Birth Control in Nineteenth-Century England

Originally published in 1978, this book argues against this interpretation.
Our Own Master Race: Eugenics in Canada, 1885-1945

In this landmark book Angus McLaren, co-author of The Bedroom and the State, examines the pervasiveness in Canada of the eugenic notion of "race betterment" and demonstrates that many Canadians believed that radical measures were justified ...
Reproduction by Design: Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-Tube Babies in Interwar Britain

Norman Haire, “How I Run My Birth Control Clinic,” in Sexual Reform Congress, Copenhagen 1–5: VII: 1928, Proceedings ofthe Second Congress (Copenhagen: Levin and Munks- gaard, 1929), 182–91; and see also Ivan Crozier, ...