The Man Who Hated Women Sex Censorship and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age

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. The word Comstockery came to connote repression and prudery. In her book, The Man Who Hated Women, 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 century. Joining Sohn in conversation today will be journalist and author Elizabeth Mitchell.
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