Sex Wars: A Novel of Gilded Age New York (edit title)

Shelfari edited the contributors of Sex Wars: A Novel of Gilded Age New York 2 weeks ago.

• Edited a contributor: Marge PeircyPiercy: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the description of Sex Wars: A Novel of Gilded Age New York Sunday, August 2 2009.

• 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, whose censorship laws are still on the books. In the tradition of her bestselling World War II epic Gone to Soldiers , Marge Piercy once again re-creates a turbulent period in American history and explores changing attitudes in a land of sacrifice, suffering, promise, and reward.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Sex Wars: A Novel of Gilded Age New York Sunday, August 2 2009.

• Added a contributor: Marge Peircy: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Sex Wars: A Novel of Gilded Age New York Thursday, July 16 2009.

• VICTORIA WAS READING the enormous book their landlady on Greene Street kept in her parlor.