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The Repeal of Reticence: A History of America's Cultural and Legal Struggles Over Free Speech, Obscenity, Sexual Liberation, and Modern Art

The Repeal of Reticence: A History of America's Cultural and Legal Struggles Over Free Speech, Obscenity, Sexual Liberation, and Modern Art

Gurstein, Rochelle

Paperback

General Political ScienceGeneral United States HistorySocial Movements

Publisher Price: $29.00

ISBN10: 0809016125
ISBN13: 9780809016129
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Published: Sep 1 1998
Pages: 372
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.95 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.28
Language: English
At a time when America's faculties of taste and judgment--along with the sense of the sacred and shameful--have become utterly vacant, Rochelle Gurstein's The Repeal of Reticence delivers an important and troubling warning. Covering landmark developments in America's modern culture and law, she charts the demise of what was dismissively called gentility in the face of First Amendment triumphs for journalists, sex educators, and novelists--from Margaret Sanger's advocacy of birth control to Judge Woolsey's celebrated defense of Ulysses. Weaving together a study of the legal debates over obscenity and free speech with a cultural study of the critics and writers who framed the issues, Gurstein offers a trenchant reconsideration of the sacred value of privacy.

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