{"product_id":"sex-wars","title":"Sex Wars","description":"Description for SEX WARS:  A NOVEL OF GILDED AGE NEW YORK by Marge Piercy:\u003cp\u003e\r\n\r\nPost Civil War New York City is the battleground of the American dream. In this era of free love, emerging rights of women, and brutal sexual repression, Freydeh, a spirited young Jewish immigrant, toils at different jobs to earn passage to America for her family. Learning that her younger sister is adrift somewhere in the city, she begins a determined search that carries her from tenement to brothel to prison as her story interweaves with those of some of the epoch's most notorious figures: Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Susan B. Anthony; sexual freedom activist Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president; and Anthony Comstock, founder of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, whose censorship laws are still on the books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nIn the tradition of her bestselling World War II epic GONE TO SOLDIERS, Marge Piercy once again re-creates a turbulent period in American history and explores changing attitudes in a land of sacrifice, suffering, promise, and reward.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Connies Bookshelf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42955689328856,"sku":"9780060789879","price":4.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0648\/9099\/4904\/products\/SexWars.jpg?v=1655019208","url":"https:\/\/conniesbookshelf.com\/products\/sex-wars","provider":"Connies Bookshelf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}