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Sohn, Amy, 1973-
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Comstock, Anthony, 1844-1915.
Postal inspectors -- United States -- Biography.
Women -- Sexual behavior -- United States -- History.
Pornography -- United States -- History.
United States -- Moral conditions.
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Sohn, Amy, 1973-
Comstock, Anthony, 1844-1915.
Postal inspectors -- United States -- Biography.
Women -- Sexual behavior -- United States -- History.
Pornography -- United States -- History.
United States -- Moral conditions.
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The man who hated women : sex, censorship, and civil liberties in the gilded age / Amy Sohn.
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Sohn, Amy, 1973-
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Call #:
363.28 C739s
Subjects
Comstock, Anthony, 1844-1915.
Postal inspectors
--
United
States
--
Biography.
Women
--
Sexual behavior
--
United
States
--
History
.
Pornography
--
United
States
--
History
.
United
States
--
Moral conditions.
ISBN:
9781250174819 (hc)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xii, 386 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"Anthony Comstock, special agent to the Post Office, was one of the most important men in the lives of nineteenth-century women. His eponymous law, passed in 1873, penalized the mailing of contraception and obscenity with harsh sentences and steep fines; his name was soon equated with repression and prudery. Between 1873 and the ratification of the nineteenth amendment in 1920, eight remarkable women were tried under the Comstock Law. These 'sex radicals' supported contraception, sexual education, gender equality, and a woman's right to sexual pleasure. They took on Comstock in explicit, bold, personal writing, seeking to redefine work, family, sex, and love for a new era. The Man Who Hated Women tells the overlooked story of their valiant attempts to fight Comstock in court and the press. They were publishers, editors, and doctors, including the first woman presidential candidate, Victoria C. Woodhull; the birth control activist Margaret Sanger; and the anarchist Emma Goldman. In their willingness to go against a monomaniac who viewed reproductive rights as a threat to the American family, they paved the way for modern-day feminism. Risking imprisonment and death, they redefined contraceptive access as a human civil liberty."--Publisher.
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