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245 10 a| Obscenity rules :b| Roth v. United States and the long struggle over sexual expression /c| Whitney Strub.;

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490 1 a| Landmark law cases & American society;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| Toward obscenity : legal evolution from colonies to comstock -- Modernizing free speech : politics, sex, and the First Amendment in the early twentieth century -- Samuel Roth, from art to smut -- The absent Supreme Court : obscenity doctrine in the 1940s -- Cold War, hot lust : sexual politics in the 1950s -- Anatomy of a case -- Writing Roth : the court opines -- The two Roths : liberalization, regulation, and the apparent paradox of obscenity in the 1960s -- From porno chic to new critiques : conservatives, feminists, and backlash to obscenity -- Epilogue : after obscenity?;

520 a| The Supreme Court's 6-3 decision in Roth v. United States (1957) for the first time tried to definitively rule on the issue of obscenity in American life and law-and failed. Whitney Strub lays out the history of obscenity's meaning as a legal concept, highlights the influence of anti-vice crusaders like Anthony Comstock, and chronicles the shadowy career of Samuel Roth ("America's leading smut lung") who spent nearly a decade imprisoned for the allegedly obscene materials he sent through the mails. Strub then unwraps the events that produced the Roth case, places the trial in the context of its times, and fully explores the impact of Justice William Brennan's majority opinion-which on the one hand reflected the liberalizing attitude toward sexual matters in mid-century America, but on the other kept "obscene" expressions beyond First Amendment protection. -- Publisher description;

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Obscenity rules : Roth v. United States and the long struggle over sexual expression / Whitney Strub.

Author/creator	Strub, Whitney
Format	Book
Publication	Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2013]
Description	x, 268 pages ; 22 cm.
Subjects	Roth, Samuel, 1893-1974--Trials, litigation, etc. United States. Supreme Court. Trials (Obscenity)--United States. United States--Trials, litigation, etc.

Series	Landmark law cases & American society Landmark law cases & American society. ^A388383
Contents	Toward obscenity : legal evolution from colonies to comstock -- Modernizing free speech : politics, sex, and the First Amendment in the early twentieth century -- Samuel Roth, from art to smut -- The absent Supreme Court : obscenity doctrine in the 1940s -- Cold War, hot lust : sexual politics in the 1950s -- Anatomy of a case -- Writing Roth : the court opines -- The two Roths : liberalization, regulation, and the apparent paradox of obscenity in the 1960s -- From porno chic to new critiques : conservatives, feminists, and backlash to obscenity -- Epilogue : after obscenity?
Abstract	The Supreme Court's 6-3 decision in Roth v. United States (1957) for the first time tried to definitively rule on the issue of obscenity in American life and law-and failed. Whitney Strub lays out the history of obscenity's meaning as a legal concept, highlights the influence of anti-vice crusaders like Anthony Comstock, and chronicles the shadowy career of Samuel Roth ("America's leading smut lung") who spent nearly a decade imprisoned for the allegedly obscene materials he sent through the mails. Strub then unwraps the events that produced the Roth case, places the trial in the context of its times, and fully explores the impact of Justice William Brennan's majority opinion-which on the one hand reflected the liberalizing attitude toward sexual matters in mid-century America, but on the other kept "obscene" expressions beyond First Amendment protection. -- Publisher description
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2013013472
ISBN	9780700619375 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN	0700619372 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780700619368 (cloth)
ISBN	0700619364 (cloth)

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