Obscenity and the Limits of Liberalism /

"Over the course of the nineteenth century in both Europe and the United States, the state usurped the traditional authority of the church in regulating sexual expression and behavior. In the same century philosophers of classical liberalism identified that state function as a threat to individ...

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Other Authors: Glass, Loren (Editor), Williams, Charles Francis, 1970- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2011]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Beyond liberalism? / Loren Glass and Charles Francis Williams
  • The obscene in everyday life / Michael Taussig
  • Defending the F-word : Freedom! / Nadine Strossen
  • "Guessing oneself into jail" : Morris Ernst and the assault on American obscenity law in the 1930s / Brett Gary
  • Sex/body/self : a performance and rant for the obscenity conference / Tim Miller
  • Forging hetero-collectives : obscenity law in India / Jyoti Puri
  • "I'm offended" / Laura Kipnis
  • Pecunia olet : affluence, effluence, and obscenity / Mikita Brottman and David Sterritt
  • Preludes to a theory of obscenity / John Durham Peters.