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Author:

Sohn, Amy, 1973- author.

Title:

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

Edition:

First editon.

Publisher:

FarrarStraus and Giroux,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

xii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Comstock, Anthony,--1844-1915.
Postal inspectors--United States--Biography.
Women--History.--United States--History.
Pornography--United States--History.
United States--Moral conditions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [353]-363)and index.

Contents:

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.

Summary:

"A narrative history about Anthony Comstock, US Postal Inspector and vice hunter, and the remarkable women who opposed him"-- provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1250174813
9781250174819

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1240265950

LCCN:

2021002669

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