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Format: 1 online resource : , 10 illus.

ISBN: 9780231520157

Content: Perversion for Profit traces the crucial function of pornography in constructing the New Right agenda, which has emphasized social issues over racial and economic inequality. Whitney Strub vividly recreates the debates over obscenity that consumed ACLU members in the 1950s and revisits the deployment of obscenity charges against purveyors of gay erotica during the Cold War, revealing the differing standards applied to heterosexual and homosexual pornography. He follows the rise of the influential Citizens for Decent Literature during the 1960s and the pivotal events that followed: the sexual revolution, feminist activism, the rise of the gay rights movement, the "porno chic" moment of the early 1970s, and resurgent Christian conservatism, which currently shapes public policy far beyond the issue of sexual decency. Strub also examines the ways in which the Left failed to mount a serious or sustained counterattack to the New Right's use of pornography as a political tool. As he demonstrates, this failure has put the Democratic Party at the mercy of Republican rhetoric for decades.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , 1. The Rediscovery of Pornography: Emergence of a Cold War Moral Panic -- , 2. Ambivalent Liberals: Theorizing Obscenity Under Consensus Constraints -- , 3. Arousing the Public: Citizens for Decent Literature and the Emergence of the Modern Antiporn Movement -- , 4. Damning the Floodtide of Filth: The Rise of the New Right and the Political Capital of Moralism -- , 5. The Permissive Society: Porno Chic and the Cultural Aftermath of the Sexual Revolution -- , 6. Resurrecting Moralism: The Christian Right and the Porn Debate -- , 7. Pornography Is the Practice, Where Is the Theory?: Second-Wave Feminist Encounters with Porn -- , 8. Vanilla Hegemony: Policing Sexual Boundaries in the Permanent Culture-War Economy -- , Notes -- , Acknowledgments -- , Index

Language: English

DOI: 10.7312/stru14886

URL: https://doi.org/10.7312/stru14886

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Format: 1 online resource : , 10 illus.

ISBN: 9780231520157

Content: Perversion for Profit traces the crucial function of pornography in constructing the New Right agenda, which has emphasized social issues over racial and economic inequality. Whitney Strub vividly recreates the debates over obscenity that consumed ACLU members in the 1950s and revisits the deployment of obscenity charges against purveyors of gay erotica during the Cold War, revealing the differing standards applied to heterosexual and homosexual pornography. He follows the rise of the influential Citizens for Decent Literature during the 1960s and the pivotal events that followed: the sexual revolution, feminist activism, the rise of the gay rights movement, the "porno chic" moment of the early 1970s, and resurgent Christian conservatism, which currently shapes public policy far beyond the issue of sexual decency. Strub also examines the ways in which the Left failed to mount a serious or sustained counterattack to the New Right's use of pornography as a political tool. As he demonstrates, this failure has put the Democratic Party at the mercy of Republican rhetoric for decades.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , 1. The Rediscovery of Pornography: Emergence of a Cold War Moral Panic -- , 2. Ambivalent Liberals: Theorizing Obscenity Under Consensus Constraints -- , 3. Arousing the Public: Citizens for Decent Literature and the Emergence of the Modern Antiporn Movement -- , 4. Damning the Floodtide of Filth: The Rise of the New Right and the Political Capital of Moralism -- , 5. The Permissive Society: Porno Chic and the Cultural Aftermath of the Sexual Revolution -- , 6. Resurrecting Moralism: The Christian Right and the Porn Debate -- , 7. Pornography Is the Practice, Where Is the Theory?: Second-Wave Feminist Encounters with Porn -- , 8. Vanilla Hegemony: Policing Sexual Boundaries in the Permanent Culture-War Economy -- , Notes -- , Acknowledgments -- , Index

Language: English

DOI: 10.7312/stru14886

URL: https://doi.org/10.7312/stru14886

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Format: 382 S. : , Ill.

ISBN: 978-0-231-14886-3

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-231-52015-7

Language: English

Keywords: Konservativismus ; Pornografie

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Format: 1 online resource (391 p.)

ISBN: 1-282-87225-7 , 9786612872259 , 0-231-52015-8

Content: While America is not alone in its ambivalence toward sex and its depictions, the preferences of the nation swing sharply between toleration and censure. This pattern has grown even more pronounced since the 1960's, with the emergence of the New Right and its attack on the "floodtide of filth" that was supposedly sweeping the nation. Antipornography campaigns became the New Right's political capital in the 1960's, laying the groundwork for the "family values" agenda that shifted the country to the right. Perversion for Profit traces the anatomy of this trend and the crucial function of pornography in constructing the New Right agenda, which has emphasized social issues over racial and economic inequality. Conducting his own extensive research, Whitney Strub vividly recreates the debates over obscenity that consumed members of the ACLU in the 1950's and revisits the deployment of obscenity charges against purveyors of gay erotica during the cold war, revealing the differing standards applied to heterosexual and homosexual pornography. He follows the rise of the influential Citizens for Decent Literature during the 1960's and the pivotal events that followed: the sexual revolution, feminist activism, the rise of the gay rights movement, the "porno chic" moment of the early 1970's, and resurgent Christian conservatism, which now shapes public policy far beyond the issue of sexual decency. Strub also examines the ways in which the left failed to mount a serious or sustained counterattack to the New Right's use of pornography as a political tool. As he demonstrates, this failure put the Democratic Party at the mercy of Republican rhetoric. In placing debates about pornography at the forefront of American postwar history, Strub revolutionizes our understanding of sex and American politics.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Front matter -- , Contents -- , 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 , Issued also in print. , English

Language: English

DOI: 10.7312/stru14886