Shameless: The Visionary Life of Mary Gove Nichols

by Jean L. Silver-Isenstadt

Biography of the influential but now-forgotten 19th-century American social reformer who preached equality in marriage, free love, and the cold-water cure.

Though little known today, Mary Gove Nichols (1810-84) was once one of the most infamous and influential women in America, a radical social reformer and pioneering feminist who preached equality in marriage, free love, spiritualism, the health risks of corsets and masturbation,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801868483
• ISBN13: 9780801868481
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher