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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Sohn, Amy, 1973- author.     Subjects     Comstock, Anthony, 1844-1915.     Postal inspectors -- United States -- Biography.     Women -- Sexual behavior -- United States -- History.     Pornography -- United States -- History.     United States -- Moral conditions.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Sohn, Amy, 1973- author.       by title:      The man who hated wo...         MARC Display

The man who hated women : sex, censorship, and civil liberties in the Gilded Age / Amy Sohn. by Sohn, Amy, 1973- author. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. Subjects 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 (hardcover) : 1250174813 (hardcover) : Description:  xii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. 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. Requests:  0 Summary:  A narrative history about Anthony Comstock, US Postal Inspector and vice hunter, and the remarkable women who opposed him. Anthony Comstock, special agent to the U.S. Post Office, was one of the most important men in the lives of nineteenth-century women. The Comstock law, passed in 1873, penalized the mailing of contraception and obscenity with long sentences and steep fines. Between 1873 and Comstock's death in 1915, eight women were charged with violating state and federal Comstock laws. They took on the fearsome censor in explicit, personal writing, seeking to redefine work, family, marriage, and love for a bold new era. Sohn tells the overlooked story of the valiant attempts by these publishers, writers, and doctors to fight Comstock in court and in the press. Risking imprisonment and death, they redefined birth control access as a civil liberty. -- adapted from jacket   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 363.28 Comstock So Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 363.28 Comstock So Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kihei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 363.28 Comstock So Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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