Governing morals : a social history of moral regulation
"This evocative and broad-ranging book traces the history of moral regulation in Britain and the US from the late seventeenth century to the present day. Specific coverage is given to movements such as the Society for the Reformation of Manners and the Vice Society, the sexual abuse and anti-pornography movements, and contemporary self-help movements. Hunt argues that the main impetus for moral regulations often stems from the middle classes, rather than those with institutional power, but most significantly they provide classic instances of the intimate link between the 'governance of others' and the 'governance of the self'. Using the work of Foucault, this book analyses how projects of self-regulation can manifest themselves into the regulation of others."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 1999
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1999
History
x, 273 pages ; 24 cm
9780521640718, 9780521646895, 0521640717, 0521646898
42406715
Introduction : the theory and politics of moral regulation
1. Compulsion to virtue : societies for the reformation of manners and the prosecution of vice
2. Moral regulation from above : the vice society
3. From sexual purity to social hygiene, 1870-1918 : Victorian America and Britain
4. Moral regulation in the United States : from sexual purity to social hygiene
5. Sexual purity, maternal feminism and class in late Victorian Britain
6. Retraditionalising moral regulation : making sense of contemporary moral politics