| Description |
xi, 342 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-330) and index. |
| Contents |
Pt. 1: The ties that bind -- Love worketh no ill: Free love and spiritualism -- Moses Harman -- Organized free thought: The National Liberal League -- Lucifer, the Light Bearer -- Pt. 2: Unrespectable reform -- Awful letters, pt. 1 -- Children of progress -- Public opinion, the Satan Paper, and the Kansas Free Lovers -- Awful letters, pt.2 -- The Prairie cauldron: Reform and regeneration, 1885-1895 -- Pt. 3: The sex radical circle -- Comstock's Yokes -- The Doctors Foote -- Handmaidens of Diana: Superwomen vs. "Cucumbers of the ground" -- Handmaidens of Diana: From the Horse Penis Affair to modernity -- The last chapter |
| Summary |
Describes the efforts at sex reform and the reaction to the Comstock Laws in the United States during the late 1800's. |
| Subject |
Free love -- History.
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Sexual ethics.
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Feminism -- United States.
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Radicalism -- United States.
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| ISBN |
0700601481 |
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9780700601486 |
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