Author Talk: Amy Sohn, The Man Who Hated Women
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Feb 09, 2025 02:00pm – Feb 09, 2025 03:00pm
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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.
Between 1873 and Comstock’s death in 1915, eight remarkable women were charged with violating state and federal Comstock laws. These “sex radicals” took on the fearsome censor in explicit, personal writing, seeking to redefine work, family, marriage, and love for a bold new era.
