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Originally Posted by jgaiser
Print books have been bowdlerized for centuries. The word comes from Thomas Bowdler who created The Family Shakespeare in which he rewrote the Shakespeare plays to remove all the words he thought women and children shouldn't be reading.
Recently a publisher reported that they were publishing a copy of Mark Twain's Huck Finn with all the n-words removed.
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And changing the copyright date as catlady stated no doubt
Got me thinking in a whole new way. Is it right that these works be bowdlerized? Many things should never have happened, but altering books to imply that they didn't just seems wrong. According to Wikipedia in the 1960's the Nancy Drew character was made more feminine and less assertive, as well as eliminating racial stereotype with limited success. Does not one cancel out the other, and to what purpose? To change our perception of history or to make money?
Sorry for straying so far off topic.
Helen
PS thanks for explaining bowdlerized.