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A Dirty, Filthy Book : Sex, Scandal, and One Woman s Fight in the Victorian Trial of the Century

A Dirty, Filthy Book : Sex, Scandal, and One Woman s Fight in the Victorian Trial of the CenturyBy: Michael Meyer

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Product Code: 9780753559949

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Weight .280 kg
Dimensions 13 × 2.7 × 20 cm

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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.

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