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Against obscenity : reform and the politics of womanhood in America, 1873-1935 / Leigh Ann Wheeler
Bib ID 3094120
Format BookBook
Author
Wheeler, Leigh Ann, 1967-
 
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Description Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004 
xiii, 251 p. ; 24 cm. 
ISBN 0801878020 (alk. paper) 
Series

Reconfiguring American political history

Full contents
  • Introduction. Crossing the Great Divide: Women, Politics, and Anti-obscenity Reform
  • 1. "Protect the Innocent!": Men, Women, and Anti-obscenity Reform, 1873-1911
  • 2. Dressing Elsie: Women's Theater Reform, 1912-1919
  • 3. "Censorship Does Not Protect": Women's Motion Picture Reform, 1919-1922
  • 4. "Woman vs. Woman": The Leading Ladies of Motion Picture Reform, 1923-1930
  • 5. "We Don't Want Our Boys and Girls in a Place of That Kind": Women's Burlesque Reform, 1925-1934
  • 6. "Thinking as a Woman and of Women": Sex Education, Obscenity's Antidote, 1925-1934
  • 7. "Sinful Girls Lead": Crises in Women's Motion Picture Reform, 1932-1934
  • 8. "'Catholic Action' Is Blazing a Spectacular Trail!": The Collapse of Women's Anti-obscenity Leadership, 1934-1935
  • Conclusion. Anti-obscenity Reform and Women's History.
 
Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-234) and index.

Subjects Women social reformers - United States - History - 19th century.  |  Women social reformers - United States - History - 20th century.  |  Obscenity (Law) - United States - History - 19th century.  |  Obscenity (Law) - United States - History - 20th century.  |  United States - Moral conditions - History - 19th century.  |  United States - Moral conditions - History - 20th century.

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