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Author:

Boyer, Paul S.

Title:

Purity in print : book censorship in America from the Gilded Age to the Computer Age / Paul S. Boyer.

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publisher:

University of Wisconsin Press,

Copyright Date:

c2002

Description:

xxviii, 466 p., [22] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Censorship--United States--History.
Obscenity (Law)--United States.
Censure--États-Unis--Histoire.
Obscénité--États-Unis.
Censuur.
Boeken.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The vice societies in the nineteenth century -- The vice societies in the Progressive Era -- The First World War -- The first postwar clash-1918-22 -- The "Clean Books" crusade -- The latter 1920s -- "Banned in Boston" -- The onslaught against federal censorship -- The thirties -- The shifting rhythms of censorship from the 1950s to the 1970s -- 1980 to the present : symbolic crusades, embattled libraries, feminist interventions, new technologies.

Series:

Print culture history in modern America

ISBN:

9780299175849 (paper : alk. paper)
0299175847 (paper : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)49551897

LCCN:

2002001066

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

IAOX771 -- State Library of Iowa (Des Moines)

N3AX771 -- Drake Law School Library (Des Moines)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

BGPE251 -- Perry Public Library (Perry)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)