The Man Who Hated Women Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age

Afbeeldingen

Artikel vergelijken

  • Engels
  • Paperback
  • 9781250174833
  • 12 juli 2022
  • 400 pagina's
Alle productspecificaties

Samenvatting

Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Best History Books of 2021 • "Fascinating . . . Purity is in the mind of the beholder, but beware the man who vows to protect yours.” —Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker

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 Comstock’s death in 1915, eight remarkable women were charged with violating state and federal Comstock laws. These “sex radicals” supported contraception, sexual education, gender equality, and women’s 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. In The Man Who Hated Women, Amy Sohn tells the overlooked story of their valiant attempts to fight Comstock in court and in the press. They were publishers, writers, and doctors, and they included the first woman presidential candidate, Victoria C. Woodhull; the virgin sexologist Ida C. Craddock; and the anarchist Emma Goldman. In their willingness to oppose a monomaniac who viewed reproductive rights as a threat to the American family, the sex radicals paved the way for second-wave feminism. Risking imprisonment and death, they redefined birth control access as a civil liberty.

The Man Who Hated Women brings these women’s stories to vivid life, recounting their personal and romantic travails alongside their political battles. Without them, there would be no Pill, no Planned Parenthood, no Roe v. Wade. This is the forgotten history of the women who waged war to control their bodies.

Productspecificaties

Inhoud

Taal
en
Bindwijze
Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
12 juli 2022
Aantal pagina's
400

Betrokkenen

Hoofdauteur
Amy Sohn
Hoofduitgeverij
Picador USA

Overige kenmerken

Product breedte
145 mm
Product hoogte
28 mm
Product lengte
218 mm
Studieboek
Nee
Verpakking breedte
145 mm
Verpakking hoogte
28 mm
Verpakking lengte
218 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht
435 g

EAN

EAN
9781250174833
Nog geen reviews

Kies gewenste uitvoering

Bindwijze : Paperback

Prijsinformatie en bestellen

De prijs van dit product is 22 euro en 99 cent.
3 - 4 weken
Verkoop door bol
  • Prijs inclusief verzendkosten, verstuurd door bol
  • Ophalen bij een bol afhaalpunt mogelijk
  • 30 dagen bedenktijd en gratis retourneren
  • Dag en nacht klantenservice