Heaven's Bride: The Unprintable Life of Ida C. Craddock, American Mystic, Scholar, Sexologist, Martyr, and Madwoman

by Leigh Eric Schmidt

Book Overview

The nineteenth-century eccentric Ida C. Craddock was by turns a secular freethinker, a religious visionary, a civil-liberties advocate, and a resolute defender of belly-dancing. Arrested and tried repeatedly on obscenity charges, she was deemed a danger to public morality for her candor about sexuality. By the end of her life Craddock, the nemesis of the notorious vice crusader Anthony Comstock, had become a favorite of free-speech defenders and women's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465002986
• ISBN13: 9780465002986
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher