Books by Angus McLaren and Complete Book Reviews
Angus McLaren, Author . Univ. of Chicago $30 (332p) ISBN 978-0-226-50076-8
Men have been complaining about failed erections ever since Ovid, but as University of Victoria historian McLaren (Sexual Blackmail: A Modern History
) shows, their significance, and with it our conceptions of masculinity, have changed over the...
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Angus McLaren, Author Wiley-Blackwell $48.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-631-20813-6
In the past three decades, historians and sociologists have increasingly used sex and sexuality as a vehicle to explain and interpret society, politics and human behavior. McLaren's ambitious book surveys nearly 100 years of sexual practices,...
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Angus McLaren, Author Wiley-Blackwell $66.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-631-20812-9
In the past three decades, historians and sociologists have increasingly used sex and sexuality as a vehicle to explain and interpret society, politics and human behavior. McLaren's ambitious book surveys nearly 100 years of sexual practices,...
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Angus McLaren, Author University of Chicago Press $22.5 (234p) ISBN 978-0-226-56067-0
This perspective study by a professor of history at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, is less a true-crime story than a sociological analysis. Cream, imprisoned for murder in the U.S., emigrated to England on his release and there...
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Angus McLaren, Author, McLaren, Author Harvard University Press $35 (352p) ISBN 978-0-674-00924-0
The central premise of this carefully researched volume is that sexual blackmail-the attempt to extort money by threatening to expose sexual secrets-has a past. McLaren, author of Twentieth-Century Sexuality: A History and a professor at the...
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