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Book SynopsisThe bestselling author of
The Beauty Myth,
Vagina and
The End of America illuminates a dramatic history - how the Obscene Publications Act of 1857 led to reverberations lasting to our day.
Trade ReviewAn important look at how the Obscene Publications Act helped usher in the state's purported need and right to police speech * Stylist *
With precision and sensitivity, Naomi Wolf traces how the state came to police the private sphere; she brings into the light the lives of those whose resistance to this brutality was a beacon for the future.
Outrages is a remarkable, revelatory book -- Erica Wagner
Outrages reveals a powerful history of how science, law and culture intersected to suppress and silence sexual expression -- Shahid Buttar, Marriage Equality Advocate
A remarkable and moving work of creative scholarship -- Larry Kramer, author of Faggots and The Normal Heart
An absorbing and thoughtfully researched must-read for anyone interested in the history of censorship and issues relating to gay male sexuality * Kirkus *
This ambitious literary, biographical, and historical treatise from Wolf examines both nineteenth-century Britain's persecution of gay men and the work and life of the relatively obscure gay writer John Addington Symonds . . . A fascinating look at this period and these writers -- Publishers Weekly
A heartbreaking, eye-opening book . . .
Outrages is revelatory in the way it brings together sometimes unbearably painful personal narratives with political and literary history . . . [a] remarkable book * Harper's Bazaar *
