Obscenity Rules: Roth V. United States and the Long Struggle over Sexual Expression

Name: Obscenity Rules: Roth V. United States and the Long Struggle over Sexual Expression
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ISBN: 9780700619375

ISBN-10: 0700619372

ISBN-13: 9780700619375

Edition: 2013

Authors: Whitney Strub

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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 American society and constitutional law for longer than he had been in business. For while the facts of Roth v. United States were unexceptional, its constitutional issues would define the relationship of obscenity to the First Amendment.The Supreme Court's 6-3 decision in Roth for the first time tried to definitively rule on the issue of obscenity in American life and law--and failed. In this first…

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List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Editors' Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



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?


Major Cases Cited


Chronology


Bibliographical Essay


Index