Civil Liberties & Human Rights
Title | Civil Liberties & Human Rights PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Costigan |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 571 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0198744277 |
A straightforward and stimulating account of this fascinating area of law that covers all the key topics on undergraduate human rights modules. It includes detailed analysis of key cases throughout that puts the law into context and encourages students to engage with contemporary issues and debates.
The Reinvention of Obscenity
Title | The Reinvention of Obscenity PDF eBook |
Author | Joan DeJean |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2002-06-02 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780226141404 |
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.
Obscenity and Indecency
Title | Obscenity and Indecency PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Cohen |
Publisher | Nova Publishers |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9781590337493 |
Obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment and therefore may be banned. Other pornography or indecency may be regulated to serve compelling government interest provided that the least restrictive means available is used. Contents: Summary; Constitutional Principles; Federal Obscenity and Indecency Statues; Cable Television; The Communications Decency Act of 1996; Child Online Protection Act; Child Internet Protection Act; RICO; Wiretaps; The Customs Service Provision; Index.
Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America's Origins to the Twenty-First Century
Title | Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America's Origins to the Twenty-First Century PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey R. Stone |
Publisher | Liveright Publishing |
Pages | 935 |
Release | 2017-03-21 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1631493655 |
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection A “volume of lasting significance” that illuminates how the clash between sex and religion has defined our nation’s history (Lee C. Bollinger, president, Columbia University). Lauded for “bringing a bracing and much-needed dose of reality about the Founders’ views of sexuality” (New York Review of Books), Geoffrey R. Stone’s Sex and the Constitution traces the evolution of legal and moral codes that have legislated sexual behavior from America’s earliest days to today’s fractious political climate. This “fascinating and maddening” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) narrative shows how agitators, moralists, and, especially, the justices of the Supreme Court have navigated issues as divisive as abortion, homosexuality, pornography, and contraception. Overturning a raft of contemporary shibboleths, Stone reveals that at the time the Constitution was adopted there were no laws against obscenity or abortion before the midpoint of pregnancy. A pageant of historical characters, including Voltaire, Thomas Jefferson, Anthony Comstock, Margaret Sanger, and Justice Anthony Kennedy, enliven this “commanding synthesis of scholarship” (Publishers Weekly) that dramatically reveals how our laws about sex, religion, and morality reflect the cultural schisms that have cleaved our nation from its founding.
Broadcast and Internet Indecency
Title | Broadcast and Internet Indecency PDF eBook |
Author | Jeremy Lipschultz |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 488 |
Release | 2008-02-14 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1135596271 |
Indecency--arguably among the most provocative and incendiary issues in today's media--is speech at the edge of social tolerance. This timely volume examines broadcast and Internet indecency from legal and social perspectives, utilizing current cases and well-publicized examples. In exploring the issues associated with this highly controversial area, author Jeremy Harris Lipschultz makes headway toward an understanding of how indecency, as communication on the fringes of social norms, functions in defining free expression through specific types of speech. He contrasts conceptualizations of indecency and obscenity, synthesizes case law and social research, and develops theoretical generalizations for future research and study. His work provides a comprehensive examination of broadcast and Internet indecency issues and cases that serve to test generalizations about freedom of expression and one's ability to define free speech.
Indecency
Title | Indecency PDF eBook |
Author | Justin Phillip Reed |
Publisher | |
Pages | 70 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | POETRY |
ISBN | 9781566895149 |
Intricate, intimate, difficult, and confrontational poems that push at the boundaries of selfhood, skin, culture, sexuality, and blood.
Memoirs of Fanny Hill
Title | Memoirs of Fanny Hill PDF eBook |
Author | John Cleland |
Publisher | |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 1888 |
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