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A Dirty, Filthy Book: Sex, Scandal, and One Womanâ€™s Fight in the Victorian Trial of the Century

By (author) Michael Meyer

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London, 1877. A petite young woman stands before an all-male jury, about to risk everything. She takes a breath, and opens her defence. Annie Besant and her confidant Charles Bradlaugh are on trial for the sordid crime of publishing and selling a birth control pamphlet. Remarkably â€“ forty-five years before the first woman will be admitted to the English bar â€“ Annie is defending herself. Before Britainâ€™s highest judge she declares it is a womanâ€™s right to choose when, and if, to have children. At a time when women were legally and socially subservient to men, Annieâ€™s defiant voice was a sensation. The riveting trial scandalised newspapers, captivated the British public and sparked a debate over morals, censorship and sex. Drawing on unpublished archives, private papers and courtroom transcripts â€“ and featuring an incredible cast including Queen Victoria, George Bernard Shaw and London itself â€“ A Dirty, Filthy Book tells the gripping story of a forgotten pioneer who refused to accept the role the Establishment assigned to her. Instead, she chose to resist.

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The Ballerina and the Bull: Anarchist Utopias in the Age of Finance

Johanna Isaacson
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288 pages
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Our moment has seen the resurgence of an anarchist sensibility, from the uprisings in Seattle in 1999 to the Occupy movement of 2011.

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Fifteen Dogs

AndrÃ© Alexis
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The Memory Collectors: A Novel

Dete Meserve
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