Sex Wars A Novel of Gilded Age New York

Name: Sex Wars A Novel of Gilded Age New York
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ISBN: 9780060789879

ISBN-10: 0060789875

ISBN-13: 9780060789879

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Authors: Marge Piercy, Marge Piercy

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Post-Civil War New York City is the battleground of the American dream. In this era of free love, emerging rights of women, and brutal sexual repression, Freydeh, a spirited young Jewish immigrant, toils at different jobs to earn passage to America for her family. Learning that her younger sister is adrift somewhere in the city, she begins a determined search that carries her from tenement to brothel to prison-;as her story interweaves with those of some of the epoch's most notorious figures: Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Susan B. Anthony; sexual freedom activist Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president; and Anthony Comstock, founder of the Society for the Suppression of Vice,…

Book details

List price: $14.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 11/21/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English

Marge Piercy is the author of 35 books of poetry & fiction, including the best sellers "Gone to Soldiers" & "The Longings of Women".