Purifying America : women, cultural reform, and pro-censorship activism, 1873-1933 / Alison M. Parke...
Purifying America : women, cultural reform, and pro-censorship activism, 1873-1933 / Alison M. Parke...
Purifying America : women, cultural reform, and pro-censorship activism, 1873-1933 / Alison M. Parker.
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Publisher
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1997.
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N303.4840922/3
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English
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Physical content
xii, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Women's activism and alliances : WCTU crusades and the quest for political power -- The suppression of impure literature : impressionable children, protective mothers -- Guardians of public morals" : professional identity and the American Library Association -- Amateur censors and critics : creating...
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Publisher
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1997.
Place of Publication
Illinois
Date Published
c1997.
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Summary
James Sullivan presents a brief history of American poetry broadsides from the seventeenth through twentieth centuries. He then explores the extensive use of the broadside during one era, the 1960s, showing how it refigured the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg, and others and situating it for specific cultural uses within t...
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Purifying America : women, cultural reform, and pro-censorship activism, 1873-1933 / Alison M. Parker.
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Women in American history.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-276) and index.
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N303.4840922/3
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74VMygyJypjA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMygyJypjA
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ISBN
0252066251 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9780252023293 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0252023293 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780252066252 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
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303.484092273
MMS ID
991002118509702626
