| Description |
x, 268 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Landmark law cases & American society |
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Landmark law cases & American society.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-248) and index. |
| 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? |
| Subject |
Roth, Samuel, 1893-1974 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
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United States -- Trials, litigation, etc.
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Trials (Obscenity) -- United States.
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United States. Supreme Court.
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| ISBN |
9780700619375 paperback alkaline paper |
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0700619372 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780700619368 cloth |
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0700619364 cloth |
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