xxviii, 466 p., [22] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
2002
C2002
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
