The Problem of Pornography

Regulation and the Right to Free Speech
1. Auflage 1994
ISBN: 978-0-415-09182-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 493 g

Can a commitment to free speech be reconciled with the regulation of pornography? Easton explores and evaluates the feminist and liberal arguments to establish that it can. A text invaluable to anyone interested in this, the thorniest of issues.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Easton, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Prostitution und Sexindustrie: Soziale & Ethische Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 The liberal defence of pornography; Chapter 2 The types of harm; Chapter 3 Proving harm; Chapter 4 Diversity and autonomy; Chapter 5 Feminism, truth and infallibility; Chapter 6 Free speech and majoritarianism; Chapter 7 The slippery slope; Chapter 8 Feminism and puritanism; Chapter 9 The protection of free speech; Chapter 10 Interpreting the First Amendment; Chapter 11 The civil rights Ordinances; Chapter 12 Freedom of speech and the regulation of pornography in English law; Chapter 13 The ‘right’ to consume pornography; Chapter 14 Incitement to sexual hatred; Chapter 15 Conclusion;

Über Autor(innen)

Susan Easton is a barrister and Lecturer in Law at Brunel University, London. She has written on Hegel and feminism and is the author of The Right to Silence, Disorder and Discipline and Humanist Marxism and Wittgensteinian Social Philosophy. She is Editor of the International Journal of Discrimination and the Law.