57. Ida Craddock with Amy Sohn

Ida C. Craddock

New York Times-bestselling author Amy Sohn joins us to discuss the fascinating life of Ida Craddock, a self-taught Victorian sex expert, spiritualist, and writer of “marriage guides” who was harassed by vice hunter Anthony Comstock. Craddock is just one of the incredible women featured in Sohn’s new book The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age. 

Discussed in this episode: 

The Man Who Hated Women by Amy Sohn

The Comstock Law

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Heaven’s Bride: The Unprintable Life of Ida C. Craddock by Leigh Eric Schmidt

Victoria Woodhull

Margaret Sanger

Emma Goldman

Chicago World’s Fair of 1893

Ouija Board

Friends’ Central Quaker School

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