Obscenity rules : Roth v. United States and the long struggle over sexual expression /

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For some, he was "America’s leading smut king," hauled into court repeatedly over thirty years for peddling obscene publications through the mail. But when Samuel Roth appealed a 1956 conviction, he forced the Supreme Court to finally come to grips with a problem that had plagued both Amer...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Strub, Whitney (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2013]
Colección:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. History.
Landmark law cases & American society.
Temas:
Roth, Samuel, > 1893-1974 > Trials, litigation, etc.
Roth, Samuel, > 1893-1974.
United States. > Supreme Court.
États-Unis. > Supreme Court.
Trials (Obscenity) > United States.
Procès (Obscénité) > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Censorship.
Trials (Obscenity)
United States > Trials, litigation, etc.
United States.
Trials, litigation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Toward obscenity : legal evolution from colonies to Comstock
  • Modernizing free speech : politics, sex, and the First Amendment in the early twentieth century
  • Samuel Roth, from art to smut
  • The absent Supreme Court : obscenity doctrine in the 1940s
  • Cold War, hot lust : sexual politics in the 1950s
  • Anatomy of a case
  • Writing Roth : the court opines
  • The two Roths : liberalization, regulation, and the apparent paradox of obscenity in the 1960s
  • From porno chic to new critiques : conservatives, feminists, and backlash to obscenity
  • Epilogue : after obscenity?

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