MAKER AND MANNERS: POLITICS AND MORALITY IN POST-WAR BRITAIN

"Makers and Manners describes how successive British governments coped with the social changes wrought by affluence and the decline of religion, as Britain changed from a society where public morality and the criminal law were firmly rooted in Christian doctrine and the sensibilities of late Victorian England, to one where the very existence of a shared public morality was brought into question." "This revealing book revisits the landmark cases and examines the moral issues to pose the core questions: how far do governments think they should defend 'traditional' values; how far, in practice, can they legislate for individual morality; and what happens when politics and sex collide?"--Jacket.