Obscenity rules [electronic resource] : Roth v. United States and the long struggle over sexual expression / Whitney Strub.

By:

Strub, Whitney

Contributor(s):

Project Muse

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Landmark law cases & American societyPublication details: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2013] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (x, 268 p. )ISBN:

9780700619757

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Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

DDC classification:

345.73/0274 23

LOC classification:

KF224.R68 S77 2013

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Contents:

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?

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