Governing Morals A Social History of Moral Regulation [Paperback]

This book is a broad-ranging history of moral regulation focusing on Britain and the US.This broad-ranging history of moral regulation in Britain and the US from the late seventeenth century onwards covers specific movements such as the Society for the Reformation of Manners, the Vice Society, sexual abuse and anti-pornography movements, and 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'.This broad-ranging history of moral regulation in Britain and the US from the late seventeenth century onwards covers specific movements such as the Society for the Reformation of Manners, the Vice Society, sexual abuse and anti-pornography movements, and 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'.This broad-ranging history of moral regulation in Britain and the United States from the late seventeenth century onward, covers specific movements such as the Society for the Reformation of Manners, the Vice Society, sexual abuse and anti-pornography movements, and 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. 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 hygil#-