Dirty works : obscenity on trial in America's first sexual revolution /

"This book focuses on a series of courtroom cases that were all represented by the same lawyer: Morris L. Ernst. Ernst's clients included European and American literati and sexual activists, among them Margaret Sanger, James Joyce, and Alfred Kinsey. They, along with a cast of burlesque th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gary, Brett (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]
Temas:
Ernst, Morris L. > (Morris Leopold), > 1888-1976.
Ernst, Morris L. > (Morris Leopold), > 1888-1976
1900-1999
Trials (Obscenity) > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Trials (Obscenity) > United States > History > 20th century.
Obscenity (Law) > United States > History > 20th century.
Censorship > United States > History > 20th century.
Sexual rights > United States > History > 20th century.
Procès (Obscénité) > New York (État) > New York > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Procès (Obscénité) > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Droits sexuels > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Censorship
Obscenity (Law)
Sexual rights
Trials (Obscenity)
New York (State) > New York
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Moral guardians and sexual modernists
  • Fighting for sexual education : Mary Ware Dennett vs. postal power
  • Women's right to sexual pleasure : Marie Stopes vs. Customs Authority
  • The taboo of inversion : Radclyffe Hall and literary censorship
  • The vomit school of literature : fighting censorship in NYC
  • Defending literary genius : James Joyce's Ulysses on trial
  • Battles for birth control : Margaret Sanger and the moral authority of doctors
  • The allure of the erotic : Alfred Kinsey and sexual science, 1947-1957
  • From the first to the second sexual revolution
  • Epilogue : Morris Ernst's complicated legacy.

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