Strangers in Our Midst: Sexual Deviancy in Postwar Ontario by Elise Chenier

Strangers in Our Midst: Sexual Deviancy in Postwar Ontario

Studies in Gender and History

Elise Chenier

294 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced

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Contemporary efforts to treat sex offenders are rooted in the post-Second World War era, in which an unshakable faith in science convinced many Canadian parents that pedophilia could be cured. Strangers in Our Midst explores the popularization of ...

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