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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
  • 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)

Holdings

Library
Blmgtn - Kinsey Institute Library (by appointment only)
Call Number
070.13 B79 p8 2002
Location
Auxiliary Library Facility - Kinsey Institute