Perversion for profit
Subtitle: the politics of pornography and the rise of the New Right
By: Whitney Strub
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780231148863; 9780231520157
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The rediscovery of pornography: emergence of a cold war moral panic; title: Ambivalent liberals: theorizing obscenity under consensus constraints; title: Arousing the public: citizens for decent literature and the emergence of the modern antiporn movement; title: Damning the floodtide of filth: the rise of the New Right and the political capital of moralism; title: The permissive society: porno chic and the cultural aftermath of the sexual revolution; title: Resurrecting moralism: the Christian right and the porn debate; title: Pornography is the practice, where is the theory? Second-wave feminist encounters with porn; title: Vanilla hegemony: policing sexual boundaries in the permanent culture-war economy.