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| #4525848 in Books | 2000-06-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.32 x.84 x6.39l,1.10 | File type: PDF | 290 pages||5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Magnificent, subtle, complex|By A Customer|Dr. Friedman uncovers the early-twentieth century history of obscenity law in the United States by examining its formation as part of what she terms 'democratic moral authority': the imposition of cultural norms by the hegemonic white middle-class. She analyzes social purity campaigns and their demarcation of the term 'obscenity' in b||The intrictae tapestry of social, sexual, political, moral, economic, and myriad other variables that in no small way comprise the censorship quandaries of our own time is greatly illuminated as a result of Friedman's scholarship. (Theater Journal)
Debate about what constitutes obscenity and how―if at all―it should be regulated has been at the center of the "culture wars" of the past two decades. While literature abounds on the contemporary politics of obscenity, there has been little inquiry into the historic origins of these issues. Focusing on New York City in the first half of the twentieth century, Andrea Friedman's Prurient Interests considers the ways in which the evolution of obscenity debates in...
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