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Amy Sohn

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“A Jewess Would Not Be Acceptable”

When it came to antisemitism, women’s colleges were no better than the Ivy League.

by Amy Sohn via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on May 8, 2025
How Anthony Comstock, Enemy to Women of the Gilded Age, Attempted to Ban Contraception

Hell hath no fury like a man with a vaginal douche named after him.

by Amy Sohn via Literary Hub on July 20, 2021
Charles Knowlton, the Father of American Birth Control

Decades after Charles Knowlton died, his book would be credited with reversing population growth in England and the popularization of contraception in the U.S.

by Amy Sohn, Robert E. Riegel, Wilson Yates, Roderick S. French via JSTOR Daily on March 21, 2018

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Collage of sexual freethinkers with a book, a gavel, and a bra.

The Radical Women Who Paved the Way for Free Speech and Free Love

Anthony Comstock’s crusade against vice constrained the lives of ordinary Americans. His antagonists opened up history for feminists and other activists.

by Margaret Talbot via The New Yorker on July 15, 2021

An illustration of Anthony Comstock, published in Puck magazine in 1906.

The 150-Year-Old Comstock Act Could Transform the Abortion Debate

Once considered a relic of moral panics past, the 1873 law criminalized sending "obscene, lewd or lascivious" materials through the mail.

by Ellen Wexler via Smithsonian on June 15, 2023

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