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Purity in print : book censorship in America from the Gilded Age to the Computer Age
- Author
- Boyer, Paul S.
- Title
- Purity in print : book censorship in America from the Gilded Age to the Computer Age / Paul S. Boyer.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Published
- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2002.
- Description
- xxviii, 466 p., [22] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
- Uniform series
- Print culture history in modern America.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- The vice societies in the nineteenth century
- The vice societies in the Progressive Era
- The First World War
- The first postwar clash-1918-22
- The "Clean Books" crusade
- The latter 1920s
- "Banned in Boston"
- The onslaught against federal censorship
- The thirties
- The shifting rhythms of censorship from the 1950s to the 1970s
- 1980 to the present : symbolic crusades, embattled libraries, feminist interventions, new technologies.
- Kinsey subjects
- Censored books. Obscenity laws--United States.
- ISBN
- 0299175847 (paper : alk. paper) 9780299175849 (paper : alk. paper)