Perversion for Profit The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right

Name: Perversion for Profit The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right
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ISBN: 9780231148863

ISBN-10: 0231148860

ISBN-13: 9780231148863

Edition: 2010

Authors: Whitney Strub

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While America is not alone in its ambivalence toward sex, its preferences swing sharply between toleration and censure. This pattern has grown even more pronounced since the 1960s, with the emergence of the New Right and its attack on the "floodtide of filth" supposedly sweeping the nation. Antipornography campaigns became the New Right's political capital in the 1960s, laying the groundwork for the "family values" agenda that shifted the country to the right. Perversion of Profit traces the anatomy of this trend, conducting archival research in twenty-four states and recounting the debates over obscenity that consumed members of the ACLU in the 1950s, the deployment of obscenity charges…

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List price: $88.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 2/22/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.90" long x 0.11" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Introduction



The Rediscovery of Pornography: Emergence of a Cold War Moral Panic



Ambivalent Liberals: Theorizing Obscenity Under Consensus Constraints



Arousing the Public: Citizens for Decent Literature and the Emergence of the Modern Antiporn Movement



Damning the Floodtide of Filth: The Rise of the New Right and the Political Capital of Moralism



The Permissive Society: Porno Chic and the Cultural Aftermath of the Sexual Revolution



Resurrecting Moralism: The Christian Right and the Porn Debate



Pornography is the Practice, Where Is the Theory?: Second-Wave Feminist Encounters with Porn



Vanilla Hegemony: Policing Sexual Boundaries in the Permanent Culture-War Economy


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index