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Author : Rokudenashiko
Release : 2016
Genre : Artists
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Book Rating : 313/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis What is Obscenity? by : Rokudenashiko
Download or read book What is Obscenity? written by Rokudenashiko. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rokudenashiko's mission is to demystify female genitalia, a mission that has led to a vulva-shaped kayak and her arrest.
Author : Christopher Hilliard
Release : 2023-09-26
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 105/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Matter of Obscenity by : Christopher Hilliard
Download or read book A Matter of Obscenity written by Christopher Hilliard. This book was released on 2023-09-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of censorship in modern Britain For Victorian lawmakers and judges, the question of whether a book should be allowed to circulate freely depended on whether it was sold to readers whose mental and moral capacities were in doubt, by which they meant the increasingly literate and enfranchised working classes. The law stayed this way even as society evolved. In 1960, in the obscenity trial over D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, the prosecutor asked the jury, "Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?" Christopher Hilliard traces the history of British censorship from the Victorians to Margaret Thatcher, exposing the tensions between obscenity law and a changing British society. Hilliard goes behind the scenes of major obscenity trials and uncovers the routines of everyday censorship, shedding new light on the British reception of literary modernism and popular entertainments such as the cinema and American-style pulp fiction and comic books. He reveals the thinking of lawyers and the police, authors and publishers, and politicians and ordinary citizens as they wrestled with questions of freedom and morality. He describes how supporters and opponents of censorship alike tried to remake the law as they reckoned with changes in sexuality and culture that began in the 1960s. Based on extensive archival research, this incisive and multifaceted book reveals how the issue of censorship challenged British society to confront issues ranging from mass literacy and democratization to feminism, gay rights, and multiculturalism.
Author : Joan DeJean
Release : 2002-06-02
Genre : Education
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Book Rating : 404/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Reinvention of Obscenity by : Joan DeJean
Download or read book The Reinvention of Obscenity written by Joan DeJean. This book was released on 2002-06-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of obscenity is an ancient one. But as Joan DeJean suggests, its modern form, the same version that today's politicians decry and savvy artists exploit, was invented in seventeenth-century France. The Reinvention of Obscenity casts a fresh light on the mythical link between sexual impropriety and things French. Exploring the complicity between censorship, print culture, and obscenity, DeJean argues that mass market printing and the first modern censorial machinery came into being at the very moment that obscenity was being reinvented—that is, transformed from a minor literary phenomenon into a threat to society. DeJean's principal case in this study is the career of Moliére, who cannily exploited the new link between indecency and female genitalia to found his career as a print author; the enormous scandal which followed his play L'école des femmes made him the first modern writer to have his sex life dissected in the press. Keenly alert to parallels with the currency of obscenity in contemporary America, The Reinvention of Obscenity will concern not only scholars of French history, but anyone interested in the intertwined histories of sex, publishing, and censorship.
Author : Edward De Grazia
Release : 1992
Genre : Law
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Book Synopsis Girls Lean Back Everywhere by : Edward De Grazia
Download or read book Girls Lean Back Everywhere written by Edward De Grazia. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the battles fought and won during the twentieth century in behalf of free expression.
Author : Margaret C. Jasper
Release : 2009
Genre : Obscenity (Law)
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Book Rating : 172/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Law of Obscenity and Pornography by : Margaret C. Jasper
Download or read book The Law of Obscenity and Pornography written by Margaret C. Jasper. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Publisher: The law of obscenity has evolved considerably since the first cases appeared in the courts. Most of these legal changes are the direct result of shifts in industry and cultural standards. The advent of the computer has presented new and novel issues to be addressed, as it is a difficult medium to monitor and control. In this legal almanac, Margaret C. Jasper explores all of the laws surrounding obscenity and pornography. This second edition outlines the evolution of the relevant case law, including constitutional considerations and the various tests that the U.S. Supreme Court has devised to balance the regulation of obscenity and the First Amendment right to free expression. The author also discusses the status of the current law, including the most recent legislation affecting materials available through the Internet and various on-line services, and the government's attempt to restrict material that is harmful to minors. New tools designed to help parents who are concerned about the availability of harmful subject matter in the media, including program blocking devices and ratings systems developed by the motion picture, television, music and videogame industries are also addressed. Related issues, such as child pornography, the relationship between pornography and violence along with the regulation of broadcast media by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) are included. A thorough Appendix provides resource directories, applicable statutes, and other pertinent information and data. The Glossary contains definitions of terms used throughout the almanac.
