Download Heaven’s Bride: The Unprintable Life of Ida C. Craddock, American Mystic, Scholar, Sexologist, Martyr, and Madwoman AudioBook Free
The 19th-century eccentric Ida C. Craddock was by turns a secular freethinker, a spiritual visionary, a civil-liberties advocate, and a resolute defender of belly-dancing. Caught and tried repeatedly on obscenity charges, she was considered a risk to general public morality for her candor about sexuality. By the finish of her life, Craddock, the nemesis of the notorious vice crusader Anthony Comstock, acquired turn into a favorite of free-speech defenders and womens protection under the law activists. She soon became as well the case-history darling of one of America's earliest and most motivated Freudians. In Heaven's Bride-to-be, prize-winning historian Leigh Eric Schmidt offers a rich biography of this forgotten mystic, who occupied the seemingly incongruous jobs of yoga priestess, suppressed sexologist, and suspected madwoman. In Schmidt's evocative revealing, Craddock's story discloses the beginning of the finish of Christian America, a harbinger of religious variety and sexual revolution.
