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The man who hated women : sex, censorship, and civil liberties in the Gilded Age / Amy Sohn.

Sohn, Amy, 1973- (author.).

Summary:
A narrative history about Anthony Comstock, US Postal Inspector and vice hunter, and the remarkable women who opposed him. Anthony Comstock, special agent to the U.S. Post Office, was one of the most important men in the lives of nineteenth-century women. The Comstock law, passed in 1873, penalized the mailing of contraception and obscenity with long sentences and steep fines. Between 1873 and Comstock's death in 1915, eight women were charged with violating state and federal Comstock laws. They took on the fearsome censor in explicit, personal writing, seeking to redefine work, family, marriage, and love for a bold new era. Sohn tells the overlooked story of the valiant attempts by these publishers, writers, and doctors to fight Comstock in court and in the press. Risking imprisonment and death, they redefined birth control access as a civil liberty. -- adapted from jacket

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781250174819
  • ISBN: 1250174813
  • ISBN: 9781250174833
  • ISBN: 125017483X
  • Physical Description: xii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-363) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
The danse du ventre -- Viceland -- The bewitching brokers -- The sensational comedy of free love -- Mr. Comstock goes to Washington -- The binding forces of conjugal life -- The wickedest woman in New York -- The physiologist -- The Comstock syringe -- A new secretary -- Helps to happy wedlock -- The Church of Yoga -- Comstock versus Craddock -- The femininity of the universe -- What every girl should know -- Why and how the poor should not have many children -- I am glad and proud to be a criminal -- Breach in the enemy's lines -- Epilogue.
Subject: Comstock, Anthony, 1844-1915.
Postal inspectors > United States > Biography.
Women > Sexual behavior > United States > History.
Pornography > United States > History.
United States > Moral conditions.

Available copies

  • 10 of 10 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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  • 0 current holds with 10 total copies.
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Cambria County Library 363.28 S682m (Text) 85131001794073 CACM Non-Fiction Available -
Dover Area Community Library Adults 363.28 SOH Nonfiction (Text) 34217000667121 Adult Area Available -
Emmaus Public Library 363.28 SOHN (Text) 36446002043050 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Harbaugh-Thomas Library (Biglerville) 363.28 SOHN (Text) 35740635743099 Nonfiction Available -
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Valley Community Library 363.28 SOHN (Text) 50690111273915 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Allentown Public Library 363.28 SOHN (Text) 34455006915033 Adult Nonfiction 2nd FL Available -
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