Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 A Public Offense against Decency: the Trial of the Count de Germiny and the “Moral Order” of the Third Republic

Chapter 3 Conjugality on Trial: the Rukhmabai Case and the Debate on Indian Child-Marriage in Late-Victorian Britain

Chapter 4 The English Dreyfus Case: Florence Maybrick and the Sexual Double-Standard

Chapter 5 Did “My Lord Gomorrah” Smile?: Homosexuality, Class, and Prostitution in the Cleveland Street Affair

Chapter 6 A Shock to Marriage?: the Clitheroe Case and the Victorians

Chapter 7 Books on Trial: Prosecutions for Representing Sapphism in fin-de-siècle France

Chapter 9 Murder Most Foul: Spousal Homicides in Ontario, 1870–1915

Chapter 10 Queer Follies: Effeminacy and Aestheticism in fin-de-siècle France, the Case of Baron d’Adelsward Fersen and Count de Warren

Chapter 11 A New Man for a New Century: Dr. Crippen and the Principles of Masculinity

Chapter 12 “The Magistrates are Men”: Working-Class Marital Conflict and Appeals from the Magistrates’ Court to the Divorce Court after 1895