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Who's obscene? / by Mary Ware Dennett.
LIBRA - Rare 146.8 D414
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dennett, Mary Ware, 1872-1947.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pornography--Law and legislation.
- Pornography.
- Sex instruction.
- Postal service--Law and legislation--United States.
- Postal service.
- Postal service--Law and legislation.
- United States.
- Censorship--United States.
- Censorship.
- Physical Description:
- xxxiii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vanguard Press, [1930]
- Contents:
- "The sex side of life" case.
- Other cases of Post Office suppression.
- Shall the Post Office censorship power continue?.
- Notes:
- Trial of Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett, April, 1929, in the United States District Court, Eastern District of New York, for the distribution through the United States mail of the defendant's pamphlet entitled The sex side of life; verdict, guilty. On appeal to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the decision of the lower court was reversed.
- Bibliography on "Auto-erotism": pages 85-87.
- OCLC:
- 310587
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