The Man Who Hated Women
Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Format: Book
Edition: First.
Description: xii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
"A narrative history about Anthony Comstock, US Postal Inspector and vice hunter, and the remarkable women who opposed him"-- Provided by publisher.
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 women 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.
Subjects:
Comstock, Anthony, 1844-1915.
Postal inspectors -- United States -- Biography.
Women -- Sexual behavior -- United States -- History.
Pornography -- United States -- History.
United States -- Moral conditions.
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
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Comstock, Anthony | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-363) and index.