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Strub, Whitney.

Obscenity rules Roth v. United States and the long struggle over sexual expression / [electronic resource] : Whitney Strub. - Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2013] - 1 online resource (x, 268 p. ) - Landmark law cases & American society .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Toward obscenity : legal evolution from colonies to comstock -- Modernizing free speech : politics, sex, and the First Amendment in the early twentieth century -- Samuel Roth, from art to smut -- The absent Supreme Court : obscenity doctrine in the 1940s -- Cold War, hot lust : sexual politics in the 1950s -- Anatomy of a case -- Writing Roth : the court opines -- The two Roths : liberalization, regulation, and the apparent paradox of obscenity in the 1960s -- From porno chic to new critiques : conservatives, feminists, and backlash to obscenity -- Epilogue : after obscenity?

ISBN: 9780700619757

Subjects--Personal Names:
Roth, Samuel, 1893-1974 --Trials, litigation, etc.

Subjects--Corporate Names:
United States. Supreme Court.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Trials (Obscenity)--United States.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Trials, litigation, etc.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: KF224.R68 / S77 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 345.73/0274