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Heaven's bride : the unprintable life of Ida C. Craddock, American mystic, scholar, sexologist, martyr, and madwoman
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Heaven's bride : the unprintable life of Ida C. Craddock, American mystic, scholar, sexologist, martyr, and madwoman / Leigh Eric Schmidt.
ISBN
9780465002986
0465002986
Published
New York : Basic Books, c2010.
Physical Description
xv, 335 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Summary
Traces the life of the nineteenth-century activist for women's rights and free speech, featuring her arrests for promoting progressive views about sexuality and her role as a case subject by an early Freudian scholar.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 11, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-316) and index.
Contents
Belly-dancing's defender
Not an infidel, but a freethinker and a scholar
Pastor of the church of yoga
An expert in sexology
Every inch a martyr
One religio-sexual maniac.
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