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Against Obscenity: Reform and the Politics of Womanhood in America, 1873-1935 Book

Against Obscenity: Reform and the Politics of Womanhood in America, 1873-1935
Against Obscenity: Reform and the Politics of Womanhood in America, 1873-1935, In the tumultuous early decades of the twentieth century, women reformers provoked tremendous political and cultural change. Temperance activists succeeded in enacting Prohibition and then saw it repealed. Welfare reformers built and then dismantled the C, Against Obscenity: Reform and the Politics of Womanhood in America, 1873-1935 has a rating of 4.5 stars
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Against Obscenity: Reform and the Politics of Womanhood in America, 1873-1935, In the tumultuous early decades of the twentieth century, women reformers provoked tremendous political and cultural change. Temperance activists succeeded in enacting Prohibition and then saw it repealed. Welfare reformers built and then dismantled the C, Against Obscenity: Reform and the Politics of Womanhood in America, 1873-1935
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  • Against Obscenity: Reform and the Politics of Womanhood in America, 1873-1935
  • Written by author Leigh Ann Wheeler
  • Published by Johns Hopkins University Press, March 2004
  • In the tumultuous early decades of the twentieth century, women reformers provoked tremendous political and cultural change. Temperance activists succeeded in enacting Prohibition and then saw it repealed. Welfare reformers built and then dismantled the C
  • Why are children the focus of debates over sexually explicit material? AgainstObscenity answers this question in a provocative examination of women's anti-obscenityactivism from 1873 to 1935. By recovering reformers' debates over whether to ban a touring
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Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction. Crossing the Great Divide: Women, Politics, and Anti-obscenity Reform1
1"Protect the Innocent!": Men, Women, and Anti-obscenity Reform, 1873-19119
2Dressing Elsie: Women's Theater Reform, 1912-191931
3"Censorship Does Not Protect": Women's Motion Picture Reform, 1919-192246
4"Woman vs. Woman": The Leading Ladies of Motion Picture Reform, 1923-193073
5"We Don't Want Our Boys and Girls in a Place of That Kind": Women's Burlesque Reform, 1925-193496
6"Thinking as a Woman and of Women": Sex Eduction, Obscenity's Antidote, 1925-1934115
7"Sinful Girls Lead": Crises in Women's Motion Picture Reform, 1932-1934133
8"'Catholic Action' Is Blazing a Spectacular Trail!": The Collapse of Women's Anti-obscenity Leadership, 1934-1935163
Conclusion. Anti-obscenity Reform and Women's History181
List of Abbreviations193
Notes195
Note on Sources235
Index243


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