Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-222) and index
Ch. 1. Sex, Shame, and Resistance: The Social and Historical Meaning of Rape -- Ch. 2. Discourses of Danger: The Social and Spatial Settings of Violence -- Ch. 3. Maidenly Girls and Designing Women: Prosecutions for Consensual Sex -- Ch. 4. Spectacle, Scandal, and Spicy Stories -- Ch. 5. From the Parlor to the Kitchen: Courtship, Popular Mores, and Regulation -- Ch. 6. Sex and the Single-Industry Community: The Social and Moral Reputation of Rural and Northern Ontario