The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age by Amy Sohn

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

Amy Sohn

400 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

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Anthony Comstock, special agent to the 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 harsh sentences and steep ...

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