{"product_id":"outrages-9780349004112","title":"Outrages","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Beauty Myth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVagina\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe End of America\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates a dramatic history - how the Obscene Publications Act of 1857 led to reverberations lasting to our day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn important look at how the Obscene Publications Act helped usher in the state's purported need and right to police speech * Stylist *\u003cbr\u003eWith 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. \u003ci\u003eOutrages \u003c\/i\u003eis a remarkable, revelatory book -- Erica Wagner\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOutrages \u003c\/i\u003ereveals a powerful history of how science, law and culture intersected to suppress and silence sexual expression -- Shahid Buttar, Marriage Equality Advocate\u003cbr\u003eA remarkable and moving work of creative scholarship -- Larry Kramer, author of Faggots and The Normal Heart\u003cbr\u003eAn absorbing and thoughtfully researched must-read for anyone interested in the history of censorship and issues relating to gay male sexuality * Kirkus *\u003cbr\u003eThis 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\u003cbr\u003eA heartbreaking, eye-opening book . . . \u003ci\u003eOutrages \u003c\/i\u003eis revelatory in the way it brings together sometimes unbearably painful personal narratives with political and literary history . . . [a] remarkable book * Harper's Bazaar *","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733634036055,"sku":"9780349004112","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780349004112.jpg?v=1720000942","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/outrages-9780349004112","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}