From 1915 through the 1930s, Mary Ware Dennett’s pioneering battles against U.S. government censorship helped pave the way for the freedom of speech Midge Maisel relies on and fights to expand. From SharonSpauldin:
Mary Ware Dennett’s pioneering battles against U.S. government censorship helped pave the way for the freedom of speech MidgeLike other fans of Amazon’s, I’ll be binge-watching when the fourth season of the hit series finally drops on Friday, Feb. 18. There’s something deeply cathartic about watching the glamorous Midge Maisel battle sexism and censorship. Wielding words like poison stilettos,
Dennett joined the suffrage movement in Massachusetts, and was later recruited to the national headquarters in New York. Arriving in Manhattan in 1910,Maisel, she found her tribe in the smoke-filled back rooms of the Village, but The answer is no. In 1873, Anthony Comstock, the anti-smut crusader and head of New York’s Suppression of Vice, succeeded in making all forms of birth control illegal after Congress passed his anti-obscenity statutes. Later known as the
So strong were these social, religious and legal chokeholds on women, that even in the late 1950s, when Dennett’s pamphlet and Joyce’s novel became inextricably linked—not unlike the interwoven careers of Midge Maisel and Lenny Bruce. The prosecuting attorney countered that “this woman” and her booklet “…opens the window … and beckons in all the neighbors’ children” to corrupt them. In overly dramatic tones that one reporter called a “caricature” of performance, the prosecutor read passages to the jury that were taken out of context. A Methodist pastor and professor of philosophy at Yale University who was present for the trial, called the prosecutor’s remarks “medieval fatheadism” and “hot air.
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