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Sex , Censorship , and the Criminalization of Love
Naomi Wolf
Paperback
$ 19.95
In 1861 , John Addington Symonds , a twenty - one - year - sure-enough scholar at Oxford who already acknowledge he loved and was attract to men , hastily publish out a seeming repudiation of the tenacious making love poem he ’d write to another young man .
Outrageschronicles the struggle and eventual triumph of John Addington Symonds — who would become a poet , biographer , and critic — at a time in British history when even individual letter that could be interpret as homoerotic could be used as evidence in trials result to harsh sentence under British police force .
describe on the piece of work of a grasp of scholar of censorship and of LGBTQ+ sound story , Wolf depicts how state censorship , and state prosecution of same - sex sex , played out — decades before the ill-famed trial of Oscar Wilde — shadow the liveliness of citizenry who risked in unexampled manner scrutiny by the vicious DoJ system . She show how legal persecutions of writers , and of military man who have it off men affected Symonds and his contemporaries , include Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti , Algernon Charles Swinburne , Walter Pater , and the painter Simeon Solomon . All the while , Walt Whitman’sLeaves of Grasswas illicitly cut through the Atlantic and find its means into the hands of readers who reveled in the American poet ’s celebration of freedom , democracy , and unfettered love .
Inspired by Whitman , and despite terrible dangers he face in doing so , Symonds keep trying , stubbornly , to find a fashion to express his message — that love and sex between men were not “ morbid ” and deviate , but born and even gentle .
He die hard in various genres his full life-time . He write a strikingly honest cloak-and-dagger memoir — which he embargoed for a contemporaries after his death — enclosing key to a codification that the source had used to embed hidden subject matter in his published work . He write the essayA Problem in Modern Ethicsthat was secretly shared in his life-time and would become foundational to our modern understanding of human sexual orientation and of LGBTQ+ legal right . This essay is now truly understood as one of the first gay rights manifesto in the English language .
Naomi Wolf’sOutragesis a critically crucial Quran , not just for its part in help to bring to new audience the write up of an oft - draw a blank pioneer of LGBTQ+ rights who could not lawfully to the full secern his own story in his lifetime . It is also critically crucial for what the book has to say about the vital and often courageous roles of publishing firm , bookseller , and freedom of speech in an era of grow calls for censoring and ever - escalate state violations of privacy . WithOutrages , Wolf land us the inspiring story of one man ’s refusal to be silenced , and his belief in a future in which everyone would have the freedom to love and to speak without fear .
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