politics of obscenity

group litigation in a time of legal change

by Joseph Fiske Kobylka

• 39 Want to read
• 17 Currently reading

Published 1991 by Greenwood Press in New York .
Written in English

Places:

• United States.,
• United States
Subjects:

• Obscenity (Law) -- United States.,
• Obscenity (Law) -- United States -- Citizen participation.

---

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-199) and index.

Statement	Joseph F. Kobylka.
Series	Contributions in legal studies,, no. 64
Classifications
LC Classifications	KF9444 .K63 1991
The Physical Object
Pagination	xvi, 206 p. ;
Number of Pages	206
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL1885646M
ISBN 10	0313268827
LC Control Number	90046698

---

  No one knows political books better than the staff at Politics & Prose. Opened in , the Washington, D.C., bookstore is considered a “sacred space” by Author: Monitor Staff.   1. Toward Obscenity: Legal Evolution from Colonies to Comstock 2. Modernizing Free Speech: Politics, Sex, and the First Amendment in the Early Twentieth Century 3. Samuel Roth, From Art to Smut 4. The Absent Supreme Court: Obscenity Doctrine in the s 5. Cold War, Hot Lust: Sexual Politics in the s 6. Anatomy of a Case 7. Writing Roth Price: $

WILLIAM AND MARY BILL OF RIGHTS JOURNAL I. ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR There is substantial, but not overwhelming, evidence that exposure to obscenity causes antisocial or criminal behavior.3 If obscenity is not speech, there is no question that this evidence warrants its suppression.4 That indeed is the current law of the land.5 If, however, obscenity is speech, the . Nicole Nolan Sidhu. Indecent Exposure: Gender, Politics, and Obscene Comedy in Middle English Literature. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Cloth. Pp. $ ISBN: In Indecent Exposure: Gender, Politics, and Obscene Comedy in Middle English Literature, Nicole Nolan Sidhu examines the role of obscenity in critiquing . In the course of one recent obscenity trial, a lawyer had argued: "A book to be obscene, need not be obscene throughout the whole of its contents; but if the book is obscene in part, it is an Author: Ryder Kessler.

A second point we should consider is how the Founders thought about the government’s role in regulating obscenity. In his recent book The Political Theory of the American Politics & : Jesse Merriam.   United States v. One Book Called Ulysses overturned that conception of obscenity forever. Judge John M. Woolsey found that while the novel contained "many words usually considered dirty, I have. In November , President Ronald Reagan pledged in a speech to anti-pornography activists to put the "purveyors" of obscene magazines and films out of business.