Bookleggers and Smuthounds : : The Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940 / / Jay A. Gertzman.
Between the two world wars, at a time when both sexual repression and sexual curiosity were commonplace, New York was the center of the erotic literature trade in America. The market was large and contested, encompassing not just what might today be considered pornographic material but also sexually...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (424 p.) :; 53 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 . Traders in Prurience: Pariah Capitalists and Moral Entrepreneurs
- 2. "Sex O'clock in America" : Who Bought What, Where, How, and Why
- 3. "Hardworking American Daddy" John Saxton Sumner and the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice
- 4. "Fifth Avenue Has No More Rights Than the Bowery": Taste and Class in Obscenity Legislation
- 5. "Your Casanova Is Unmailable": Mail-Order Erotica and Postal Service Guardians of Public Morals
- 6. The Two Worlds of Samuel Roth: Man of Letters and Entrepreneur of Erotica
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index