Feminist censorship is puritanical and outmoded, not recognising the ease with which today's young women engage with the media or indeed the aplomb with which these women practise feminism and manage their sexuality. 1995 One of the UNSW Press's controversial Frontlines series. He asks why right-wingers fundamentalists and radical feminists are getting into bed together on the issue of pornography. Wilson builds a credible case for maintaining trade in pornography, arguing that it does little harm and perhaps achieves some good. It examines the history of print and film censorship, the free speech issue, the problems of video games and new technology and the government bodies that make the decisions.
Free speech is the most fundamental of our civil liberties, and also the most vulnerable.
In this authoratative account, Robert Pullan describes how our laws of defamation, contempt, obscenity and sedition have enabled the government to say that black is white. Note that this book was originally published in 1961 by Jacaranda Press. The 1974 edition is revised and brought up to date. The original version does not have a publication date included, but it is hard-back while the 1974 edition is paperback. The two words, both coming from the same origin in Roman antiquity, underlie the debate in this book.