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Heaven's bride : the unprintable life of Ida C. Craddock, American mystic, scholar, sexologist, martyr, and madwoman Leigh Eric Schmidt
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks BF 1408.2 .C73 S36 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schmidt, Leigh Eric.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Craddock, Ida C.
- Occultists--United States--Biography.
- Occultists.
- Mystics--United States--Biography.
- Mystics.
- Women mystics--United States--Biography.
- Women mystics.
- Feminists--United States--Biography.
- Feminists.
- Women's rights--United States--History--19th century.
- Women's rights.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 335 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Basic Books, c2010.
- Summary:
- Traces the life of the nineteenth-century activist for women's rights and free speech, featuring her arrests for promoting progressive views about sexuality and her role as a case subject by an early Freudian scholar.
- Contents:
- Belly-dancing's defender
- Not an infidel, but a freethinker and a scholar
- Pastor of the church of yoga
- An expert in sexology
- Every inch a martyr
- One religio-sexual maniac.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-316) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780465002986 (alk. paper)
- 0465002986 (alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 535492105
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