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Author Heins, Marjorie.

Title Not in front of the children : "indecency," censorship and the innocence of youth / Marjorie Heins.

Publication Info. New York : Hill and Wang, 2001.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  363.31 HEINS    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  363.31 HEINS    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  303.376 H471N    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xiv, 402 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-371) and index.
Contents Introduction -- From Plato to computers -- Youth and censorship : a road map -- Clarifications and caveats --- [ch.] 1. "To deprave and corrupt" -- Minors, censorship, sex, and history -- The invention of childhood? -- "Protecting the young and immature" -- Free love, the Comstock Law, and "secret entertainment" -- Some judges start asking questions -- [ch.] 2. More emetic than aphrodisiac -- Freud, the First Amendment, and a first round with Ulysses -- Minors and obscenity in the '30s and '40s -- Juvenile delinquency, social science, comic books, and Professor Kinsey -- Intellectual rumblings -- [ch.] 3. The great and mysterious motive force in human life -- The Supreme Court speaks - finally -- Protecting young psyches after Butler and Roth -- Buttons, armbands, The little red school book, and Rupert Bear -- Justice Brennan changes his mind -- [ch.] 4. Policing the airwaves -- Oral sex, and "the public convenience, interest, or necessity" -- Jerry Garcia and a definition of indecency -- Shielding young ears from the seven dirty words -- Pacifica in the Supreme Court -- [ch.] 5. The reign of decency -- The FCC, the Meese Commission, and Art about AIDS -- ACT I, the irrepressible Mr. Stern, and perhaps Molly Bloom -- Sealed wrappers, blinder racks, and dial-a-porn -- A few judges think about indecency and harm -- School censorship, heinous crimes, and violent videos -- [ch.] 6. The ideological minefield : sexuality education -- modesty, virtue, and early battles over sex ed -- Teen pregnancy and Sex respect -- Abstinence unless married -- Models of sexuality education -- [ch.] 7. Indecency law on trial : Reno v. ACLU -- Panic over cyberspace -- The wired courtroom -- A never-ending worldwide conversation -- [ch.] 8. Filtering fever -- The politics of filtering - blocking sex, vulgarity, and Dr. Seuss -- State laws, Loudoun County, and Reno II -- Heavy breathing : the "Hary met Sally" case -- V-chips, and ratings revisited -- Violence, curse word, and kids at century's end -- [ch.] 9. Cultural differences -- Minors in the global culture -- Video nasties and the venerable BBFC -- The French letter and Internet watch -- The European Union weighs in -- "Les dangers ubuesques du filtrage" -- [ch.] 10. Media effects -- Imitation and catharsis -- Disproving Aristotle -- Definitional dilemmas -- Sex, violence, and social science -- Kids, ambiguity, and the social cognition approach -- Conclusion: The ethical and moral development of youth.
Subject Censorship -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
National characteristics, American -- History -- 20th century.
Obscenity (Law) -- United States.
Youth -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
United States -- Moral conditions -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN 0374175454 alkaline paper
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