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

by Amy Sohn

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1250174813

ISBN13:9781250174819

Release Date:July 2021

Publisher:Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Length:400 Pages

Weight:1.35 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 6.3" x 9.1"

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