” Amy Werbel finds a way to tell a redemptive story of one of America’s most reviled and lampooned figures—the man who peeked into bedrooms and sought to take all the fun out of the sex Americans had there. . . . Perhaps nothing brings to life better the late nineteenth-century crisis in masculinity than a bunch of lawmakers panicking that they would be replaced by dildos. Amy Werbel’s new study turns up other surprises that will make the work of interest to students of art history as well as readers with an interest in gender and LGBTQ history.” – Judith Giesberg, American Historical Review (December, 2019)
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Winner of the Peter C. Rollins Book Prize of the Northeast Popular/American Culture Association
Appreciative Review in the Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy
First Amendment Salon with Nadine Strossen at Ballard Spahr LLC is Now Live
A wide-ranging conversation with Nadine Strossen and First Amendment attorneys and activists, led by Lee Levine, Esq. at Ballard Spahr LLP (December 4, 2018). Watch on YouTube
Mary Campbell reviews Lust on Trial in Panorama
The Past Present and Future of American Free Speech, at FIT
“Richly detailed, deeply researched and lavishly illustrated.” Immoral Rubber: The Times Literary Supplement Review
Interview at Notches: (re) marks on the History of Sexuality
“An amazing feat of pop-cultural scholarship” The Los Angeles Review of Books
Praise at the Gotham Center for New York City History for “provocative, cutting-edge work.”
