Pornography on trial : a handbook with cases, laws, and documents / Thomas C. Mackey.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: ABC-CLIO E-Books | On trialPublication details: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, Description: xv, 335 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1576072754
  • 9781576072752
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Pornography on trial.; Online version:: Pornography on trial.DDC classification:
  • 345.73/0274 21
LOC classification:
  • KF9444.A7 M33 2002
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- Historical background -- Cases -- Impact and legacy -- Documents -- Key people, laws, and concepts -- Chronology -- Table of cases -- Annotated bibliography.
Summary: Anti-smut crusaders and advocates of free speech have always been locked in an intellectual death struggle. In fact, at one time even the disseminators of birth control information were prosecuted for "obscenity." How this ongoing battle has fared during the last two centuries in the United States is now surveyed in Pornography on Trial. This book assesses the U.S. legal and doctrinal rules that interest groups, communities, and judges employ to regulate, suppress, or tolerate allegedly obscene material. The coverage provides a blueprint for surveying American pornography policies in the latter half of the 20th century, covering the full sweep of anti-obscenity measures, from the key 1868 "Hicklin test" to the latest decisions involving the Communications Decency Act of 1996. The volume contains a solid introduction, examines the social, economic, political and historical background of the issue, and discusses the impact of key cases on U.S. society. There are also primary documents, such as court decisions and interviews; an A-Z list of individuals, laws, and concepts; a chronology; a glossary; and an annotated bibliography.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-321) and index.

Introduction -- Historical background -- Cases -- Impact and legacy -- Documents -- Key people, laws, and concepts -- Chronology -- Table of cases -- Annotated bibliography.

Anti-smut crusaders and advocates of free speech have always been locked in an intellectual death struggle. In fact, at one time even the disseminators of birth control information were prosecuted for "obscenity." How this ongoing battle has fared during the last two centuries in the United States is now surveyed in Pornography on Trial. This book assesses the U.S. legal and doctrinal rules that interest groups, communities, and judges employ to regulate, suppress, or tolerate allegedly obscene material. The coverage provides a blueprint for surveying American pornography policies in the latter half of the 20th century, covering the full sweep of anti-obscenity measures, from the key 1868 "Hicklin test" to the latest decisions involving the Communications Decency Act of 1996. The volume contains a solid introduction, examines the social, economic, political and historical background of the issue, and discusses the impact of key cases on U.S. society. There are also primary documents, such as court decisions and interviews; an A-Z list of individuals, laws, and concepts; a chronology; a glossary; and an annotated bibliography.

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