Fresh empirical evidence of pornography's negative effects and the resurgence of feminist and conservative critiques have caused local, state, and federal officials to reassess the pornography issue. In The New Politics of Pornography, Donald Alexander Downs explores the contemporary antipornography movement and addresses difficult questions about the limits of free speech. Drawing on official transcripts and extensive interviews, Downs recreates and analyzes landmark cases in Minneapolis and Indianapolis. He argues persuasively that both conservative and liberal camps are often characterized by extreme intolerance which hampers open policy debate and may ultimately threaten our modern doctrine of free speech. Downs concludes with a balanced and nuanced discussion of what First Amendment protections pornography should be afforded. This provocative and interdisciplinary work will interest students of political science, women's studies, civil liberties, and constitutional law.
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Political science professor at the University of Wisconsin, Downs ( Nazis in Skokie ) undertakes an objective and thought-provoking analysis of the unusual marriage of right-wing conservative philosophy and leftist extremist feminism in the crusade against pornography. According to Downs, just when American culture seemed to have achieved an equilibrium between First Amendment rights and protection from obscenity, grass-roots feminists and moralists in Minneapolis recast the issue. They lobbied for city ordinances that were passed in 1983 only to be vetoed by the mayor. A modified version was enacted in Indianapolis in 1984 but was ruled unconstitutional. Downs reconstructs the momentum and fervor of the activists, balancing his account with the perspective that the participants lacked, and deftly examines the national ramifications, both political and legal, of these local battles.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Donald Alexander Downs is associate professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is the author of Nazis in Skokie: Freedom, Community, and the First Amendment.
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Anti-pornography movements have been part of the American landscape since the 1870s, but the 1980s have spawned new arguments and alliances that have altered the terms of debate. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
new unprotected category, progressive censorship, obscenity doctrine, sheer pornography, unprotected expression, assault provision, pornography ordinance, trafficking provision, sexual depictions, unprotected class, free speech values, pornography issue, violent pornography, obscenity test, pornography movement, pornographic art, obscenity law, civil rights ordinance, free speech law, free speech doctrine, unprotected speech, viewpoint discrimination, modern doctrine, political precedents, radical feminist theory Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Andrea Dworkin, Administration Committee, Charlee Hoyt, Civil Rights Commission, Mark Dall, New York, Mayor Fraser, Mayor Hudnut, United States, Sheila Kennedy, Beulah Coughenour, Baptist Temple, Catherine Watson, Steve Cramer, Urban League, Deep Throat, Greg Dixon, Moral Majority, Pornography Resource Center, Court of Appeals, Library Board, Minnesota Civil Liberties Union, Rozelle Boyd, Seventh Circuit, William Dowden New!
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new unprotected category, progressive censorship, obscenity doctrine, sheer pornography, unprotected expression, assault provision, pornography ordinance, trafficking provision, sexual depictions, unprotected class, free speech values, pornography issue, violent pornography, obscenity test, pornography movement, pornographic art, obscenity law, civil rights ordinance, free speech law, free speech doctrine, unprotected speech, viewpoint discrimination, modern doctrine, political precedents, radical feminist theory Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Andrea Dworkin, Administration Committee, Charlee Hoyt, Civil Rights Commission, Mark Dall, New York, Mayor Fraser, Mayor Hudnut, United States, Sheila Kennedy, Beulah Coughenour, Baptist Temple, Catherine Watson, Steve Cramer, Urban League, Deep Throat, Greg Dixon, Moral Majority, Pornography Resource Center, Court of Appeals, Library Board, Minnesota Civil Liberties Union, Rozelle Boyd, Seventh Circuit, William Dowden New!
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- The Tolerant Society by Lee C. Bollinger on 6 pages
- Pornography and Sexual Aggression by Author Unknown on 5 pages
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- Bad Girls and Sick Boys: Fantasies in Contemporary Art and Culture by Linda S. Kauffman on 5 pages
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- Family Values and the New Society: Dilemmas of the 21st Century by George P. Smith on page 39, page 205, and Back Matter
- The New Victorians: A Young Woman's Challenge to the Old Feminist Order by Rene Denfeld on page 95, and Back Matter
- Beyond the First Amendment: The Politics of Free Speech and Pluralism by Samuel P. Nelson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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