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ONLINE: Amy Sohn Craig LaCourt The latest book by author Amy Sohn is The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age. A Room of One s Own hosts author Amy Sohn for a discussion of the new book The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age. The titular character is Anthony Comstock, who used a position as a U.S. postal inspector to harass and prosecute those who ran afoul of his narrow vision of morality, and influenced federal laws on what was legal to mail. Needless to say, he was not popular with early civil liberties or women s rights groups, and it is the stories of his opponents that provide the heart of Sohn s book. She will be joined in conversation by former

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