Purity in print
Subtitle: book censorship in America from the Gilded Age to the Computer Age
By: Paul S. Boyer.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Print culture history in modern America
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Madison, Wis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 466
Subjects: Censorship -- United States -- History; Obscenity (Law) -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The vice societies in the nineteenth century; title: The vice societies in the Progressive Era; title: The First World War; title: The first postwar clash-1918-22; title: The "Clean Books" crusade; title: The latter 1920s; title: "Banned in Boston"; title: The onslaught against federal censorship; title: The thirties; title: The shifting rhythms of censorship from the 1950s to the 1970s; title: 1980 to the present : symbolic crusades, embattled libraries, feminist interventions, new technologies.