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Not in front of the children : "indecency," censorship and the innocence of youth

Author

Heins, Marjorie.

Title

Not in front of the children : "indecency," censorship and the innocence of youth / Marjorie Heins.

Format

Book

Edition

1st pbk. ed.

Published

New York : Hill and Wang, 2002, c2001.

Description

xiv, 402 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-371) and index.

Contents

• Introduction
• From Plato to computers
• Youth and censorship : a road map
• Clarifications and caveats
• - [ch.] 1. "To deprave and corrupt"
• Minors, censorship, sex, and history
• The invention of childhood?
• "Protecting the young and immature"
• Free love, the Comstock Law, and "secret entertainment"
• Some judges start asking questions
• [ch.] 2. More emetic than aphrodisiac
• Freud, the First Amendment, and a first round with Ulysses
• Minors and obscenity in the '30s and '40s
• Juvenile delinquency, social science, comic books, and Professor Kinsey
• Intellectual rumblings
• [ch.] 3. The great and mysterious motive force in human life
• The Supreme Court speaks - finally
• Protecting young psyches after Butler and Roth
• Buttons, armbands, The little red school book, and Rupert Bear
• Justice Brennan changes his mind
• [ch.] 4. Policing the airwaves
• Oral sex, and "the public convenience, interest, or necessity"
• Jerry Garcia and a definition of indecency
• Shielding young ears from the seven dirty words
• Pacifica in the Supreme Court
• [ch.] 5. The reign of decency
• The FCC, the Meese Commission, and Art about AIDS
• ACT I, the irrepressible Mr. Stern, and perhaps Molly Bloom
• Sealed wrappers, blinder racks, and dial-a-porn
• A few judges think about indecency and harm
• School censorship, heinous crimes, and violent videos
• [ch.] 6. The ideological minefield : sexuality education
• Modesty, virtue, and early battles over sex ed
• Teen pregnancy and Sex respect
• Abstinence unless married
• Models of sexuality education
• [ch.] 7. Indecency law on trial : Reno v. ACLU
• Panic over cyberspace
• The wired courtroom
• A never-ending worldwide conversation
• [ch.] 8. Filtering fever
• The politics of filtering - blocking sex, vulgarity, and Dr. Seuss
• State laws, Loudoun County, and Reno II
• Heavy breathing : the "Harry met Sally" case
• V-chips, and ratings revisited
• Violence, curse words, and kids at century's end
• [ch.] 9. Cultural differences
• Minors in the global culture
• Video nasties and the venerable BBFC
• The French letter and Internet watch
• The European Union weighs in
• "Les dangers ubuesques du filtrage"
• [ch.] 10. Media effects
• Imitation and catharsis
• Disproving Aristotle
• Definitional dilemmas
• Sex, violence, and social science
• Kids, ambiguity, and the social cognition approach
• Conclusion: "The ethical and moral development of youth."

Kinsey subjects

Censorship--United States. Censorship research--United States. Attitudes on censorship--United States. Censorship laws--United States. Mass media censorship--United States. Obscenity laws--United States. Obscenity. Social ethics--United States.

ISBN

0809073994 (pbk.) 9780809073993 (pbk.)