Umfang:
Online-Ressource (382 p)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780231148863
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9780231520157
Inhalt:
While America is not alone in its ambivalence toward sex, its preferences swing sharply between toleration and censure. This pattern has grown even more pronounced since the 1960s, with the emergence of the New Right and its attack on the ""floodtide of filth"" supposedly sweeping the nation. Antipornography campaigns became the New Right's political capital in the 1960s, laying the groundwork for the ""family values"" agenda that shifted the country to the right. Perversion of Profit traces the anatomy of this trend, conducting archival research in twenty-four states and recounting th
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; INTRODUCTION; 1. THE REDISCOVERY OF PORNOGRAPHY; 2. AMBIVALENT LIBERALS; 3. AROUSING THE PUBLIC; 4. DAMNING THE FLOODTIDE OF FILTH; 5. THE PERMISSIVE SOCIETY; 6. RESURRECTING MORALISM; 7. PORNOGRAPHY IS THE PRACTICE, WHERE IS THE THEORY?; 8. VANILLA HEGEMONY; Notes; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780231148870
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Perversion for Profit : The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right
Sprache:
Englisch
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