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SUMMARY:Author Talk: The Man Who Hated Women by Amy Sohn
DESCRIPTION:The New York Times–bestselling author Amy Sohn presents a 
 narrative history of Anthony Comstock\, anti-vice activist and U.S. Postal 
 Inspector\, and the remarkable women who opposed his war on women’s 
 rights at the turn of the twentieth century\n\nAnthony 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.\n\nBetween 1873 and Comstock’s death in 1915\, eight remarkable 
 women were charged with violating state and federal Comstock laws. These 
 “sex radicals” supported contraception\, sexual education\, gender 
 equality\, and women’s right to pleasure. They took on the fearsome 
 censor in explicit\, personal writing\, seeking to redefine work\, family\, 
 marriage\, and love for a bold new era. In The Man Who Hated Women\, Amy 
 Sohn tells the overlooked story of their valiant attempts to fight Comstock 
 in court and in the press. They were publishers\, writers\, and doctors\, 
 and they included the first woman presidential candidate\, Victoria C. 
 Woodhull\; the virgin sexologist Ida C. Craddock\; and the anarchist Emma 
 Goldman. In their willingness to oppose a monomaniac who viewed 
 reproductive rights as a threat to the American family\, the sex radicals 
 paved the way for second-wave feminism. Risking imprisonment and death\, 
 they redefined birth control access as a civil liberty.\n\nThis program 
 will take place in person at the Library\, and will also be streamed on 
 Zoom.
LOCATION:Liss Meeting Room
ORGANIZER;CN="Robin Carroll Mann":MAILTO:Rcm@summitlibrary.org
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CONTACT;CN="Robin Carroll Mann":MAILTO:Rcm@summitlibrary.org
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