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

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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 centuryAnthony 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.Between 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.The Man Who Hated Women brings these women’s stories to vivid life, recounting their personal and romantic travails alongside their political battles. Without them, there would be no Pill, no Planned Parenthood, no Roe v. Wade. This is the forgotten history of the women who waged war to control their bodies.

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A very thorough overview of the actions of Anthony Comstock, the effects of the laws that bear his name, his enemies and the Zeitgeist in which all the major players functioned (more about this below). Anyone interested in the transition from the post-bellum period to early 20th century period would find this book very interesting. Based on some of the editorial reviews quoted by Amazon I was expecting a bitter screed and was very happy to see that Sohn wrote no such thing. In fact, at the end of the book she criticizes “victim-oriented feminism”. I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in this period of time in America.Some points of criticism:1. Sohn frequently juxtaposes documented facts with seamless speculation in a way that suggests the speculation is established fact (usually expressing things with terms such as “most likely would have...” or “would likely have felt” etc.2. Claims of “feminists living in the current political era find(ing) gains of the past century being dialed back...” are unsubstantiated and rather outrageous. No one of any influence is calling for making birth control illegal. No attempt is being made to outlaw speech about sex, birth control, marriage, politics, abortion. If being against late-term abortions is something akin to wanting to enslave women then one must ask “at what point does abortion become infanticide”?. Should abortion 2 weeks before a term delivery would have occurred naturally be legal? In a similar vein (at the other end of spectrum): How can someone claim that a fertilized egg is an actual person in the sense that a newborn is? And that therefore Plan-B emergency contraception should be illegal?3. Everyone described in Sohn's text counted themselves as a “Progressive”. They had totally opposite views on the topics on which they battled. So, what did they have in common such that they all saw themselves as enlightened and “Progressive”? The common element is that they all believed that “experts” like themselves should guide the coercive power of the State to make people “do the right thing”. None of them had true respect for individual rights even as they fought for freedom of speech etc. The best proof of this is that they all (except Comstock himself) believed in Eugenics. Sanger's and Emma Goldman's involvement with this issue is somewhat whitewashed by Sohn and explained as a product of “the times”. Yes, it was. Read about Buck V. Bell in which Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote that “It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes. Three generations of imbeciles are enough. “4. Sohn also implies that any limits on immigration based on politics was immoral and outrageous thereby implying that there should have been no limits on the importation of self-described anarchists who, by their own words, were dedicated to bringing down all forms of government.“The Constitution is not a "suicide pact." So wrote Robert Jackson in 1949. For further discussion of the effects of massive immigration during the Progressive period I recommend “Ethnic America” by Thomas Sowell.

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