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

by Amy Sohn

★ Smithsonian Magazine – 10 Best History Books of the Year

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 and prudery.

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date: July 6, 2021
Format: Print edition
Pages: 400
ISBN: 9781250174819

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