Domestic Intimacies : : Incest and the Liberal Subject in Nineteenth-Century America / / Brian Connolly.
Although it is commonly thought that incest has been taboo throughout history, nineteenth-century Americans evinced a great cultural anxiety that the prohibition was failing. Theologians debated the meaning and limits of biblical proscription, while jurists abandoned such injunctions and invented a...
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