Against Obscenity: Reform and the Politics of Womanhood in America, 1873-1935

by Leigh Ann Wheeler

Book Overview

Radio shock jocks, Super Bowl entertainment, music videos, and internet spam--all of these topics inspire passionate disagreements about whether and how to regulate sexually explicit material. But even in the midst of heated debate, most people agree that children should be shielded from exposure to pornographic images. Why are children the focal point of debates over sexually explicit material? And how did a culture rooted in Puritanism and Victorianism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801878020
• ISBN13: 9780801878022
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher