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by Marge Piercy
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
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.
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Published
November 21st 2006
by William Morrow Paperbacks
(first published November 22nd 2005)
Sex Wars: A Novel of Gilded Age New York
0060789875
(ISBN13: 9780060789879 )
New York City, New York
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Not as good as I expected. I would recommend this book to young women (16 & up) who maybe don't know a lot about women's history. It does make me want to know more about these women's lives. I imagine the truth is better than the fictionalization! There's a lot of explicit sexual content in the book. But even the sex was kind of dull! I found the characters, who were mostly real historical figures like Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, & Victoria Woodhull, to be quite one-dimensional. Th
Not as good as I expected. I would recommend this book to young women (16 & up) who maybe don't know a lot about women's history. It does make me want to know more about these women's lives. I imagine the truth is better than the fictionalization! There's a lot of explicit sexual content in the book. But even the sex was kind of dull! I found the characters, who were mostly real historical figures like Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, & Victoria Woodhull, to be quite one-dimensional. The fictional part of the book, about a Polish immigrant woman, was interesting but not very believable. There's some unbelievably stilted dialogue & an odd tendency to link the physical characteristics of women like Anthony & Stanton, to their personality characteristics! Here is my two-minute synopsis, with SPOILERS: Susan B. Anthony: Elizabeth, you mustn't eat any more! You're enormous! We need you to be a famous women's rights campaigner & you can't do it if you're too big to walk! Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Oh, shut up & go talk to the younger women. (Aside.) Look how thin Susan is, obviously she isn't getting any sex. She'll never get a man & have children. She'll have to do all the travelling & speaking while I write the speeches. I like that Victoria woman, she looks like she's getting some sex. Victoria Woodhull: I need to make lots of money to overcome my poor family. I can do it because I'm beautiful & smart & I can use this rich man over here to help. (Makes money.) Now I need to become a famous women's rights advocate. All characters - (Speeches made. Newspapers published.) Anthony Comstock: No, you prostitute! I arrest you! And by the way, no one should be having any sex except me! Victoria: Oh no! (Loses money.) I'm so depressed! Susan, Elizabeth: let's forget about Victoria & be friends again. Victoria: I'm moving to England & getting married. (Leaves.) Freydeh: I need to make money, find my sister, & have a nice house. I'll work hard, become a condom manufacturer, & take in a few street kids along the way. (Makes money.) Anthony Comstock: No, you prostitute! I arrest you! Freydeh: Oh no! (Loses money.) Oh well, no use being depressed. All I have to do is work twice as hard & find my sister. (Some live. Some die.)
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This book addresses a fascinating fifty year period and with admirable feminist verve. Following the lives of women from various walks of life but equal commitment to furthering their autonomy and their political and economic goals, Sex Wars features fascinating characters from free love spiritualist and first woman to run for U.S. president Victoria Woodhull to notorious and successful abortionist "Madame Restell," to those founding mothers of the American women's movement, Elizabeth Cady Stant
This book addresses a fascinating fifty year period and with admirable feminist verve. Following the lives of women from various walks of life but equal commitment to furthering their autonomy and their political and economic goals, Sex Wars features fascinating characters from free love spiritualist and first woman to run for U.S. president Victoria Woodhull to notorious and successful abortionist "Madame Restell," to those founding mothers of the American women's movement, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Piercy also recognizes what a different world the so-called Gilded Age represented for the working classes and the poor; some of the most poignant material in the book comes out of the life story of an (I think) invented Jewish American immigrant Freydeh who begins a condom manufacturing business. Piercy's central paradox is the fervor of the postbellum years regarding sex and women's independence--some, like Anthony Comstock whose censoring (and censorious) tale she tells with barely disguised disdain, who see the world changing and are determined to put a stop to it, and others, like Woodhull who celebrate women's pleasure in sex and knowledgeable control of their own bodies. A lot of the information Piercy includes here I did not know before, such as Stanton's commitment to publishing against Christian treatments of women as inherently sinful, in spite of the fact that these essays and books met with great outrage. Woodhull is a totally fascinating figure, as much as charlatan as an ideologue, and I'd love to read more about her. Piercy is on to something with her themes--that this was a time when urbanization, prosperity, and the New Woman led to changing social mores that really outraged and alienated many people (Comstock and another traditionalist character, Asher, both of whom PIercy depicts as patriarchs who miss the small-town values of their youth). And her cast of characters is well-chosen, their storylines interweaving in thematically productive ways. (Freydeh the condom maker crosses paths with Comstock, much to her detriment, as does Woodhull, and so three of the central characters, each from a different walk of life, find their public fates and conflicting ideologies entangled.) Unfortunately, this is an incredibly didactic book. Piercy's opinions about women's sexuality and social activism come through loud and clear, and the straightforward narration about these themes never quite seems to fit in the minds of the characters whose reflections are ostensibly being ventriloquized. Also, Piercy clearly fell in love with her research, and when she enters in on a scene description or a biographical anecdote, or even cultural context, I felt as though the narrator were announcing 'We now interrupt our regularly scheduled novel programming for an excursus into a book report on historical facts about this period.' The writing just felt clumsy and awkward, a limitation that made the explicit sex scenes rather uncomfortable--ironic in a book about how important it is to be frank and unashamed about sex.
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I was first introduced to Marge Piercy by a grad school roommate and i tore through all the books i could find written by Piercy up to that point. I just discovered Sex Wars: A Novel of the Gilded Age New York covering the lives of early suffragettes Susan B. Anthony and (the seemingly more likable, tho less famous) Elizabeth Cady Stanton; sensationalistic (first female presidential candidate) Victoria Woodhull and her rather colorful family; the fictional Jewish immigrant Freydeh Levin; as well
I was first introduced to Marge Piercy by a grad school roommate and i tore through all the books i could find written by Piercy up to that point. I just discovered Sex Wars: A Novel of the Gilded Age New York covering the lives of early suffragettes Susan B. Anthony and (the seemingly more likable, tho less famous) Elizabeth Cady Stanton; sensationalistic (first female presidential candidate) Victoria Woodhull and her rather colorful family; the fictional Jewish immigrant Freydeh Levin; as well as crusader on the side of the lord, Anthony Comstock fighting against obscenity as well as anything outside of "normal" sex roles, in the "turbulent post-civil war years". This is yet another novel of shifting narrative perspective and some voices seem to be rendered more truly than others (it also did a bit of jumping back in forth in time that had me constantly referring to other pages, but that could just be my chronologically challenged mind.) The character of Fredeh seemed to me one of the most poignant (perhaps because Piercy was not limited so much by historical accuracy in her~and was condom-production really the only good money making option outside of prostitution for the non-seamstress-single-woman, because it didn't seem to draw in a whole hell of a lot?) and even Comstock seemed somewhat more fully drawn (perhaps fruit of a struggle to make him at least a touch sympathetic?) the rest of the characters sometimes fell into stiltedness or caricatures, but not horrendously so, and it was an easy, quick, yet still edifying read (especially on the tail end of an illness when my brain wasn't ready for much.) As an interesting aside, here's a description of the presidential election of 1876: "By midnight, when they finally got into bed it was clear that Tilden had won the popular vote by a considerable margin. As the Herald trumpeted the next morning, Samuel Tilden was now president. However, the Times said the election was too close to call. Henry and Elizabeth talked more during the next weeks than they had in a decade. The election was being stolen, through the three Southern states still under Reconstruction regimes. Boards were set up in Louisiana, South Carolina and Florida that disqualified thousands of ballots for Tilden and certified ballots for Hayes even when the number of ballots exceeded the number of voters in a district. Weeks turned into months and still the election was in doubt. The election finally came down to Florida and the disputed votes there. The states had no president. The democrats were protesting fraud. Finally the election was thrown into the Supreme Court, where Republicans outnumbered Democrats. The crooked election was certified along strictly partisan lines. Rutherford Hayes became the next president while Tilden retired from public life." Sound slightly familiar? At least there was no mention of hanging chads. All in all, this is not Piercy's Best work ( Gone to Soldiers is heart wrenching & beautiful, Braided Lives one of my favorites, and He, She and It is great science fiction) but it is still very much worth reading. There are only a few historical novels i take much interest in (or maybe more than a few, now that i think about it~but there are many that i take no interest in) this is one that i enjoyed reading. And, as i said, this oh-so-very-knowledgeable librarian learned a great deal from it, so how can you beat that?
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I struggled thru the first half of this novel. Kept telling myself it would get better. It didn't. After being introduced to a religious zealot that I had absolutely no interest in (actually started skipping his chapters) and Victoria Woodhull (portrayed as a scam artist and early day hippie,) I hit part two and finally called it quits. Why? Not only was I not enjoying or getting a feel for any of its characters (the exception being the Russian immigrant Freydeh. She alone has kept this novel fr
I struggled thru the first half of this novel. Kept telling myself it would get better. It didn't. After being introduced to a religious zealot that I had absolutely no interest in (actually started skipping his chapters) and Victoria Woodhull (portrayed as a scam artist and early day hippie,) I hit part two and finally called it quits. Why? Not only was I not enjoying or getting a feel for any of its characters (the exception being the Russian immigrant Freydeh. She alone has kept this novel from being one star) but the novel is chronologically backwards like Star Wars. Part two goes back 16 years all of a sudden. It jumps to 1862 and then to 1847 and back up a bit to 1854 so not only do you have to keep track of who is who, but also what year they are in. If I have to draw a timeline, I am not going to enjoy the story.
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I enjoyed this one though it's not a book for the faint-hearted, I would guess. Here, the author tells the personal history of women that drove the womens' rights movement in the United States and those who opposed them. Intermixed, is the story of a woman searching for her sister who ends up going into business for herself by manufacturing condoms. What I found most interesting about the account is the histories of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Victoria Woodhall, Anthony Comstock, a
I enjoyed this one though it's not a book for the faint-hearted, I would guess. Here, the author tells the personal history of women that drove the womens' rights movement in the United States and those who opposed them. Intermixed, is the story of a woman searching for her sister who ends up going into business for herself by manufacturing condoms. What I found most interesting about the account is the histories of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Victoria Woodhall, Anthony Comstock, and others. The women have all kinds of views and practices of sexuality - showing how the womens' movement varied in its ideas and approaches. And, of course, Anthony Comstock gives new meaning to the word...farcical character who never really was in touch with his own sexuality. Margaret Sanger makes an appearnace as does another prominent abortionist of the 19th century - they're made to be heroic figures, I think. So, it is pretty clear that the author has more than fiction, in mind, which could anger/frustrate a few. I, for one, loved the portrayal and the conflict. It ends on kind of a sour note for our suffragette heroines but...then, it was a quite realistic ending. This book was recommended to me by a friend and I appreciate the recommend.
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Different title, different cover would serve this book better. Piercy covered a lot of ground in this European immigration story. Birth control, women's voting rights, poverty, and survival all mixed up in the teeming city of New York in the late 1800s. Piercy jumps from story to story, character to character, and moves time up and back. Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Vanderbilt, Sanger, Woodhull as well as fictional characters tell about this turbulent time. I found it interesting an
Different title, different cover would serve this book better. Piercy covered a lot of ground in this European immigration story. Birth control, women's voting rights, poverty, and survival all mixed up in the teeming city of New York in the late 1800s. Piercy jumps from story to story, character to character, and moves time up and back. Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Vanderbilt, Sanger, Woodhull as well as fictional characters tell about this turbulent time. I found it interesting and edifying.
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I really enjoyed this book. History unfolding in a novel format. I read it around the time of all the election madness and it was a good reminder of how far we've come, which gave me hope.
I really enjoyed this book. History unfolding in a novel format. I read it around the time of all the election madness and it was a good reminder of how far we've come, which gave me hope.
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Who owns the film rights to this? Because if I were HBO or Showtime, I'd be adapting this novel for a TV series RIGHT NOW. It's like a Gilded Age Masters of Sex combined with Boardwalk Empire . I want to see these characters on TV. A
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