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

by Amy Sohn

Book Overview

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"