| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.1

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Book Review

Sex Radicals and the Quest for Women's Equality. By Joanne E. Passet. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. x, 259 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-252-02804-X.)

Joanne E. Passet's Sex Radicals and the Quest for Women's Equality makes a welcome addition to the list of works on sex radicalism, or free love, in the nineteenth century. Like earlier works by Taylor Stoehr and this reviewer, Passet's book locates the origins of free love in the early 1850s among New York reform radicals and health reformers. Like Hal Sears, she traces the fortunes of the free love movement in post–Civil War America among midwestern publishers. She highlights the careers of Mary Gove Nichols and Victoria Woodhull, who championed sexual freedom in short careers twenty years apart. But unlike earlier authors, who emphasized the work of leading men in the free love movement, Passet sees sex radicalism as a movement with a strong appeal to and support from women who embraced free love as a possible solution to the sexual exploitation, abuse, and inequality they suffered.

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