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The man who hated women : sex, censorship, and civil liberties in the Gilded Age by Amy Sohn is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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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 and obscenity with long sentences and steep fines. The word Comstockery came to connote repression an
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- Author
- Amy Sohn
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781250174826
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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