ÉTYMOLOGIE DU MOT COMSTOCKERY
Coined by G. B. Shaw (1905) after Anthony Comstock (1844–1915), US moral crusader, who founded the Society for the Suppression of Vice.
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10 LIVRES EN ANGLAIS EN RAPPORT AVEC «COMSTOCKERY»
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comstockery dans la sélection bibliographique suivante. Des livres en rapport avec
comstockery et de courts extraits de ceux-ci pour replacer dans son contexte son utilisation littéraire.
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Encyclopedia of Birth Control
Comstockery. Anthony Comstock was the most eminent cru- sader against
dissemination of literature on con- traception from 1870 to his death. He was so
prominent and active in the campaign against “obscene literature” that his name
has ...
2
An Encyclopedia of Swearing: The Social History of Oaths, ...
COMSTOCKERY. The term refers to immoderate censorship, especially of literary
texts, on the grounds of assumed immorality. Comstockery is now the equivalent
in American English for Bowdlerism in British English, both terms deriving from ...
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Human Sexuality: An Encyclopedia
Eli Coleman COMSTOCK, ANTHONY; COMSTOCKERY Comstockery (
sometimes Comstockism) refers to an aggressive prudery aimed at eliminating all
mention or depiction of sexual matters or erotic stimulation from public
expression or ...
Vern L Bullough, RN, PhD, Faan, Vern L. Bullough, Bonnie Bullough, 2014
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Children and Youth in America: A Documentary History
George Bernard Shaw on "Comstockery," 1905 a. Current Literature, XXXIX (
1905), 551. IS BERNARD SHAW A MENACE TO MORALS? A rather lively
discussion on this question has been provoked lately by the action of Prof. A. E.
Bostwick ...
Robert Hamlett Bremner, 1971
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Human Sexuality: An Encyclopedia
Eli Coleman COMSTOCK, ANTHONY; COMSTOCKERY Comstockery (
sometimes Comstockism) refers to an aggressive prudery aimed at eliminating all
mention or depiction of sexual matters or erotic stimulation from public
expression or ...
Vern L. Bullough, Bonnie Bullough, 2014
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Godly Seed: American Evangelicals Confront Birth Control, ...
1. Comstockery. and. Contraception. The only effective laws suppressing birth
control information and devices in American history were pure products of
Evangelical Protestant fervor; nary a single Roman Catholic was involved. In key
respects ...
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The Phone Poem Book: Simple Gifts
Comstockery. [d. 1914—not a Clerihew] Anthony Comstock Filled a big crock
With texts he considered immoral. The big crock instead Was just his fat head
With its fixations, some of them oral. #45 ...
L. Eugene Startzman, 2010
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
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Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in ...
This True Story Magazine was his answer to 'Comstockery' and allfor which, in
his mind, the epithet stands.”55 The “origin of True Story,” then, “lies directly in
Macfadden's previous physical culture career.”56 That career had pitted him
against ...
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Garner's Modern American Usage
See camaraderie. comstockery (often cap.) refers to prudish censorship, or
attempted censorship, of supposed immorality in art or literature. In 1873,
Congress passed the so-called Comstock Law—a federal statute to control
obscenity, ...
10 ACTUALITÉS CONTENANT LE TERME «COMSTOCKERY»
Découvrez de quoi on parle dans les médias nationaux et internationaux et comment le terme
comstockery est employé dans le contexte des actualités suivantes.
Trigger Unhappy
Even questioning the ubiquity of degrading porn, never mind labeling music or video games, is denounced as Comstockery, but labeling The ... «National Review Online, mai 14»
The peculiar madness of 'trigger warnings'
Even questioning the ubiquity of degrading porn, never mind labeling music or video games, is denounced as Comstockery, but labeling "The ... «Los Angeles Times, mai 14»
India's Supreme Court junks the Hicklin Test, but there's little cause …
... the search for “redeeming social value” usually ends at puritans' doorsteps. Comstockery's tattered banner, emblazoned with “Morals, not art! «Index On Censorship, avril 14»
The Contraceptive Mandate Finally Leads America Out of the …
The question before us is simple: Do we turn back the clock and allow a new Comstockery to prevail, or do we move ahead into the 21st ... «Huffington Post, avril 14»
The US's Long and Sordid HIstory of Persecuting Journalists
... morals “Comstockery” to hounding and criminal prosecution of anyone revealing embarrassing truths at inopportune moments, the American ... «CounterPunch, févr 14»
The war that made Orwell
After the bad days of Comstockery, the quality of his poetry was improving with the quality of his encounters: The Italian soldier shook my hand. «Salon, janv 14»
The Notorious Life of a Nineteenth-Century Abortionist
Comstockery may seemingly triumph—we are not done with it yet—but like the spirit of female independence and resistance she embodies, ... «The Nation., oct 13»
One Night in Frisco
Cliffs notes on Old Man Comstock: Had a derogatory term for censorship "comstockery" named for him after none other than George Bernard ... «Lone Star Ball, juin 13»
City to require clothes
Fears of such Comstockery were not misplaced: Citing a sizable and inappropriate rise in public nudity in San Francisco's Castro district, ... «Minneapolis Star Tribune, oct 12»
Making war against love
Comstockery fell into disrepute in the 1910s and '20s as Americans enjoyed the benefits of economic expansion. Greenwich Village ... «Chicago Tribune, mars 12»
