By Janice Ruth Wood
Passed in 1873, the Comstock Act banned 'obscene' fabrics from the mail with no defining obscenity, leaving it open to interpretation by means of courts that have been adverse to loose speech. Literature that mirrored altering attitudes towards sexuality, faith, and social associations fell sufferer to the Comstock Act and similar kingdom legislation. Dr. Edward Bliss Foote turned one of the earliest participants convicted lower than the legislation after he mailed a brochure on birth-control tools. For the following 4 a long time, Foote Sr. and his son, Dr. Edward Bond Foote, challenged the Comstock Act in Congress, legislatures, and courts and likewise provided own counsel to Comstock defendants. This e-book chronicles the Footes’ fight, analyzing not only the efforts of those cruising champions of freedom of expression and women's rights, but additionally the bigger concerns surrounding loose speech and censorship within the Gilded Age of yankee history.
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