Book

The Man Who Hated Women

Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age

Amy Sohn

2021

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Book Excerpt

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
Book Review

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

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