| BIBLIOGRAPHY |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Danse du ventre -- Viceland -- Bewitching brokers -- Sensational comedy of free love -- Mr. Comstock goes to Washington -- Binding forces of conjugal life -- Wickedest woman in New York -- Physiologist -- Comstock syringe -- New secretary -- Helps to happy wedlock -- Church of Yoga -- Comstock versus Craddock -- 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. |
| Summary |
"The New York Timesbestselling author Amy Sohn presents a narrative history of Anthony Comstock, anti-vice activist and U.S. Postal Inspector, and the remarkable women who opposed his war on womens rights at the turn of the twentieth century Anthony Comstock, special agent to the U.S. 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 long sentences and steep fines. The word Comstockery came to connote repression and prudery. Between 1873 and Comstocks death in 1915, eight remarkable women were charged with violating state and federal Comstock laws. These zsex radicalsy supported contraception, sexual education, gender equality, and womens right to pleasure. They took on the fearsome censor in explicit, personal writing, seeking to redefine work, family, marriage, and love for a bold new era." -- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Comstock, Anthony, 1844-1915.
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Postal inspectors -- United States -- Biography.
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Women -- Sexual behavior -- United States -- History.
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Birth control -- United States -- History.
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Women -- History -- 19th century.
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Women -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Pornography -- United States -- History.
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United States -- Moral conditions -- History.
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| Other title |
Sex, censorship, and civil liberties in the Gilded Age |
| ISBN |
9781250174819
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1250174813
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