Book Review: Sex Crimes in the Fifties

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2017-06

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Bongiorno, Frank

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Cambridge University Press (CUP) for University of Queensland Press

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The popular impression of the 1950s still depicts a sleepy decade when nothing much happened. But in line with revisionist research, Lisa Featherstone and Amanda Kaladelfos’s Sex Crimes in the Fifties makes a bold and convincing claim for the 1950s as a pivotal decade in the making of Australian modernity, and of sexuality in particular. Focusing on New South Wales, and drawing on a rich archive of transcripts from criminal proceedings, their book covers a range of sex crimes including rape, carnal knowledge, indecent assault and homosexual offences.

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Queensland Review

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