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

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Main Author: Strub, Whitney
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2013]
Series:Landmark law cases & American society.
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Table of 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?