The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in 18th-Century Britain and France

Edited by Linda E. Merians

“The essays in this collection paint a portrait of the secret malady; public and private responses to the epidemic; changing attitudes toward venereal disease; and its role in making sex a taboo subject, in enforcing class and racial distinctions and in raising the level of misogyny.”

Publisher: Univ. Press of Kentucky
Paperback: 304 pages
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