Purifying America
Subtitle: women, cultural reform, and pro-censorship activism, 1873-1933
By: Alison M. Parker.
Series: Women in American history
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: Woman's Christian Temperance Union -- History; Women social reformers -- United States -- History; Censorship -- United States -- History; Popular culture -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States -- History; United States -- Moral conditions -- History
Description: 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 the social and political struggles of the times.

Sullivan's introduction lays out the project's theoretical groundwork in the cultural studies movement and surveys the history of the broadside in North America since the advent of printing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-276) and index.
Table of contents: title: Women's activism and alliances : WCTU crusades and the quest for political power; title: The suppression of impure literature : impressionable children, protective mothers; title: Guardians of public morals" : professional identity and the American Library Association; title: Amateur censors and critics : creating an alternative cultural hierarchy; title: Mothering the movies : women reformers and popular culture; title: The production of "pure" children's literature : the WCTU's young crusader; title: Hearts uplifted and minds refreshed : promoting and producing pure culture.