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Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Epiphany Week at Eureka -- 2 The Policy Believed to be in the Interests of the British Empire -- 3 Aboriginal Folklore and Traditions -- 4 A Kind of Earthquake -- 5 Uncovering the Filed and Forgotten -- 6 Talking History -- 7 How Do We Approach Public History? -- 8 The Private and the Public -- 9 The Ship -- 10 Those Who Dared -- 11 Issues Confronting Indigenous Australians -- 12 Words that Changed Everything -- 13 The Idea of a Treaty -- 14 Amy's Choice -- 15 Legislating Liberty -- 16 Crafting New Narratives -- 17 A World of Alternatives -- 18 After Consensus -- 19 Why Were We Fighting? -- 20 The Kulin's Treaty -- 21 Remaking Australia -- 22 Lessons in Two Bodies -- 23 Lost in a Strange Land -- 24 Other People's Subject Matter -- 25 Family Separations and Refugees -- 26 Poisoning the Race -- 27 Genetic Connections -- Contributors -- Index.

Cover -- Praise Page -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction: sexuality and the problem of Western civilization -- Suggested reading -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Sex and the city: Greece and Rome -- Rome -- Suggested reading -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Divine desire in ancient Judaism, the beginnings of Christianity, and early Islam -- The Jewish heritage -- Jesus -- Paul and the apostles: first century ce -- Virginity and celibacy in the second and third centuries ce -- The problem of marital sex -- Suggested reading -- Notes -- Chapter 4: From twilight moments to moral panics: the regulation of sex from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century -- Medieval Spain -- Prostitution and the city -- Same-sex desire -- Conclusion -- Suggested reading -- Notes -- Chapter 5: The age of exploration: sexual contact and culture clash in Spain and colonial Mesoamerica -- Spain on the brink of conquest -- The conquest -- Sexual mixing and the myth of racial purity -- Conclusion -- Suggested reading -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Enlightening desire: new attitudes toward sexuality in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- The anatomy of sex and reproduction -- Philosophy in the bedroom -- Conclusion -- Suggested reading -- Notes -- Chapter 7: In the Victorian twilight: sex out of wedlock, sexual commerce, and same-sex desire, 1750-1870 -- Sexual regulation and the state -- Prostitution -- Same-sex desires -- Victorian changes -- Middle-class morality -- Suggested reading -- Notes -- Chapter 8: Boundaries of the nation, boundaries of the self, 1860-1914 -- Sexual desire and national boundaries -- The movement to abolish regulation of prostitution -- The Heinze affair in Germany -- Sexual desire: purity or liberation? -- Male homosexuality.

Are sex scandals simply trivial distractions from serious issues or can they help democratize politics? In 1820, George IV's ""royal gambols"" with his mistresses endangered the Old Oak of the constitution. When he tried to divorce Queen Caroline for adultery, the resulting scandal enabled activists to overcome state censorship and revitalize reform. Looking at six major British scandals between 1763 and 1820, this book demonstrates that scandals brought people into politics because they evoked familiar stories of sex and betrayal. In vibrant prose woven with vivid character sketches and illu