Angus McLaren (born 1942) is

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of history at the

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, British Columbia, and a leading historian of sexuality. He earned degrees from

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and

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Selected publications

* ''A History of Contraception: From Antiquity to Present Day'' * ''Sexual Blackmail: A Modern History'' * ''A Prescription for Murder: The Victorian Serial Killings of Dr. Thomas Neill Cream''. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1993. * ''The Trials of Masculinity: Studies in the Policing of Sexual Boundaries, 1870-1930''. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1997. * ''Twentieth-Century Sexuality: A History'' * ''Impotence: A Cultural History''. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007. * ''Reproduction by Design: Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-Tube Babies in Interwar Britain''. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2012.

References

Academic staff of the University of Victoria Historians of sexuality 1942 births Living people University of British Columbia alumni Harvard University alumni {{historian-stub