Against Obscenity: Reform and the Politics of Womanhood in America, 1873-1935

by Leigh Ann Wheeler

Book Overview

As women beat down the doors and won the right to vote in the early twentieth century, adult (patriarchal) males rightly anticipated crusades on behalf of, or mounting conflicts over, those issues that particularly agitated women--drink, child welfare, and vice chief among them. This study examines the struggle of women to exert (matriarchal) control over burlesque houses, motion-picture theaters, and sex education in the schools--employing censorship...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801886384
• ISBN13: 9780801886386
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher