Dirty, Filthy Book (eBook)

Sex, Scandal, and One Woman s Fight in the Victorian Trial of the Century

Michael Meyer (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
400 Seiten
Ebury Publishing (Verlag)
978-0-7535-5995-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Makes the case for Annie Besant as a truly eminent Victorian, as brilliant and fearless as she was beautiful The Times_________London, 1877. A petite young woman stands before an all-male jury, about to risk everything. She takes a breath, and opens her defence.Annie Besant and her confidant Charles Bradlaugh are on trial for the crime of publishing a birth control pamphlet. Remarkably, Annie is defending herself against obscenity charges 45 years before women can practice law in England. At a time when women were expected to be obedient, Annie s fearless voice was a sensation and spotlighted issues of sex, censorship and morality.A Dirty, Filthy Book tells the gripping story of a little-known pioneer who refused to accept the role that the establishment assigned her, and chose instead to resist.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.2.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 0-7535-5995-1 / 0753559951
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7535-5995-6 / 9780753559956