Pornography in a Free Society

Publisher:  University of Cambridge, 1988, Cambridge
Year Published:  1988
Pages:  236pp   ISBN:  0-521-40600-5
Library of Congress Number:  HQ471.H387   Dewey:  363.47
Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX6496

An examination of public policy debates about pornography in the United States in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.

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Table of Contents

List of tables and figures
Preface
Acknowledgements

I. Pornography and the pornography commissions
Introduction
1. Experts on what? the origins and composition of pornography commissions
2. On definitions
3. The nature and distribution of pornography in the United States
4. Pornographic communication and social harm: a review of the reviews
5. Freedom of expression and the public law of pornography

II. Public policy after liberalization
Introduction
6. Pornography and the subjugation of women: the radical feminist challenge
7. Pornography and child protection
8. Pornography in perspective: social response in the noncensoring society
9. Notes toward the future

References
Index

Subject Headings

• Censorship
• Child Pornography
• Children/Sexual Development
• Erotica
• Female Sexuality
• Feminism
• Freedom of Expression
• Pornography
• Sexually-Explicit Materials