Degrees: Ph.D. Harvard (1971), B.A. British Columbia (1965)

Email: amclaren@uvic.ca

I have written on the emergence of the serial killer, medical ethics, abortion, and the history of contraception and eugenics. My current research interests are focused on the history of sexuality.

B.A. UBC 1965; Ph.D. Harvard 1971

Impotence: A Cultural History (University of Chicago Pess, 2007).

Sexual Blackmail: A Modern History (Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 2002).

Birth Control in 19th Century England. London: Croom Helm, 1978.

Sexuality and Social Order: The Debate Over the Fertility of Women and Workers in France, 1770 to 1920. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1983.

Reproductive Rituals: Perceptions of Fertility in England from the 16th to the 18th Centuries. London: Methuen, 1984.

Our Own Master Race: Eugenics in Canada, 1885-1945. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1990. Reprinted Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1997.

A History of Contraception: From Antiquity to the Present Day. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990.

A Prescription for Murder: The Victorian Serial Killings of Dr. Thomas Neill Cream, University of Chicago Press, 1993.

The Trials of Masculinity: Studies in the Policing of Sexual Boundaries, 1870-1930 Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.

(With Arlene McLaren) The Bedroom and the State: The Changing Practices and Politics of Contraception and Abortion in Canada, 1880-1997. Second Edition. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Twentieth-Century Sexuality: A History. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.