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Perversion for profit : the politics of pornography and the rise of the New Right

Author
Strub, Whitney.
Title
Perversion for profit : the politics of pornography and the rise of the New Right / Whitney Strub.
Format
Book
Published
New York : Columbia University Press, c2011.
Description
382 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • 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.
Kinsey subjects
Erotica--United States--20th century. Attitudes on erotica--United States--20th century. Censorship--United States--20th century. Sex and politics--United States--20th century.
ISBN
9780231148863 (cloth : alk. paper) 0231148860 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780231520157 (ebook) 0231520158 (ebook)

Holdings

Library
Blmgtn - Kinsey Institute Library (by appointment only)
Call Number
071.1 S77 p4 2011
Location
Auxiliary Library Facility - Kinsey Institute