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The Female Nude: Art, Obscenity, and Sexuality

Book by Lynda Nead; Routledge, 1992

Subjects:

Female Nude In Art, Sex In Art

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...the consumers of those images. The high-art female nude cannot be studied in isolation...a dangerous society; the regulation of obscenity is thus shown to be a procedure for the...Arguments have polarized into pro- and anti-censorship platforms and, partly as a result of this...
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Prurient Interests: Gender, Democracy, and Obscenity in New York City, 1909-1945

Book by Andrea Friedman; Columbia University Press, 2000

Subjects:

Arts--Censorship--New York (State)--New York--History--20th Century, Censorship--New York (State)--New York--History--20th Century, Erotica--Social Aspects--New York (State)--New York--History--20th Century, New York (N.Y.)--Moral Conditions--History--20th Century, Obscenity (Law)--New York (State)--New York--History--20th Century, Sex In Popular Culture--New York (State)--New York--History--20th Century, Vice Control--New York (State)--New York--History--20th Century

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...was as true of obscenity, as of every witch...offices of New Yorks Art Stu- dents League...teenth-century obscenity regime had already...National Board of Censorship of Motion Pictures...enactment of state censorship, however, a complex...lic debate about obscenity for the remainder...
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Pornography and Democratization: Legislating Obscenity in Post-Communist Russia

Book by Paul W. Goldschmidt; Westview Press, 1999

Subjects:

Censorship--Russia (Federation)--History, Censorship--Russia--History, Censorship--Soviet Union--History, Feminism--Russia (Federation), Obscenity (Law)--Russia (Federation), Pornography--Russia (Federation)--Social Aspects, Pornography--Social Aspects

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...Legislating Obscenity in Post-Communist...Censorship Before 1825...Literature and Art RGALI , the...rights. Yet the censorship of obscenity can be differentiated...conditions, the censorship of obscenity is not the same...
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Pornography and Censorship

Book by David Copp, Susan Wendell; Prometheus Books, 1983

Subjects:

Censorship, Obscenity (Law), Pornography--Social Aspects

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...Offensiveness, Pornography, and Art 185 Committee on Obscenity and Film Censorship, Chairman, Bernard Williams...of judicial judgments regarding obscenity and censorship. The cases are from three different...
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Purity in Print: The Vice-Society Movement and Book Censorship in America

Book by Paul S. Boyer; Charles Scribners Sons, 1968

Subjects:

Censorship--United States--History, Obscenity (Law)--United States

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...urges that obscenity be redefined...society is not censorship or verbal reticence...restricting art? I dont answer...liberalization of the obscenity laws. Clearly book-censorship history is...debate over censorship, obscenity, and the vice...

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Black and White and Banned All Over: Race, Censorship and Obscenity in Postwar Memphis

Journal article by Whitney Strub; Journal of Social History, Vol. 40, 2007

Subjects:

African Americans--Crimes against, African Americans--Social aspects, Memphis, Tennessee--Social aspects, Race discrimination

Collections: History, Entire Library

...entire regime of racialized censorship. True obscenity to him was not Jane Russells...showed little interest in censorship or obscenity beyond a general support...showed little concern for censorship or obscenity, indicating his lack of...
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Obscene and over Here: National Sex and the Love Me Sailor Obscenity Case

Journal article by Nicole Moore; Australian Literary Studies, Vol. 20, 2002

Subjects:

Banned books--Social aspects, Censorship--Social aspects, Close, Robert--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Erotic literature--Social aspects, Love Me Sailor (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Obscenity (Law)--Cases

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...separation between art and politics...of repressive censorship (131). It is...and nature of obscenity, of sexuality...and import of obscenity as such need...Australian literary censorship. Closes novel...Coleman, Peter. Obscenity, Blasphemy, Sedition: 100 Years of Censorship in Australia...
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Obscenity Law and Its Consequences in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America

Journal article by Donna I. Dennis; Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 16, 2007

Subjects:

Act for the Suppression of Trade in, and Circulation of, Obscene Literature and Articles of Immoral Use of 1873, Erotic literature--Laws, regulations and rules, Obscenity (Law)--Laws, regulations and rules, Obscenity--Laws, regulations and rules, Pornography--Laws, regulations and rules

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...capacity of sexual censorship to promote the...expressed objection to obscenity prosecutions (far...CHILDREN: "INDECENCY," CENSORSHIP, AND THE INNOCENCE...publishing and obscenity prosecution in...using the threat of obscenity prosecution. See...astutely notes, the censorship campaign backfired...
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Carving a Literary Exception: The Obscenity Standard and Ulysses

Journal article by Marisa Anne Pagnattaro; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 47, 2001

Subjects:

Law and literature--History, Literature and society--History, Obscenity (Law) in mass media--Social aspects

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...concern that such censorship would stifle th e arts: Art certainly cannot...Ulysses: The obscenity standard for...another wave of censorship in state courts...that sex and obscenity are not synonymous...sex, e.g. in art, literature...
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Pease, Allison. Modernism, Mass Culture, and the Aesthetics of Obscenity

Journal article by David Galef; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 34, 2002

Subjects:

Modernism, Mass Culture, and the Aesthetics of Obscenity (Book)

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...exploitive of obscenity. The 1960s seemed...potential safe from censorship. Just as the divisions...highbrow and lowbrow art have collapsed...aesthetics and obscenity, with its emphasis...contention that art is tied into morality...aesthetics and obscenity are entwined with...Ten Oclock" saw art as opposed to...

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Cincinnati Censorship

Magazine article by William F. Buckley Jr.; National Review, Vol. 42, May 14, 1990

Subjects:

Art--Censorship, Cincinnati, Ohio--Social policy, Mapplethorpe, Robert--Public opinion, Obscenity (Law)--Cases, Obscenity--Cases, Serrano, Andres--Public opinion

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Cincinnati Censorship. by William F...him for violating the obscenity laws of the city of Cincinnati...well-meaning males censored art to protect fair maidens...executed by an artist is "art"--and that it should...that certain kinds of art do not qualify for national...
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The Big Chill Censorship: Paul Reubens: Arrested for Collecting Vintage Nude Photos. Howard Stern: Silenced for On-Air Speech. How a Nationwide Crackdown on "Obscenity" Could Freeze out Gay and Lesbian Expression for Years to Come

Magazine article by Mike Hudson, Chad Graham; The Advocate, May 11, 2004

Subjects:

Censorship, Obscenity (Law)--Cases, Obscenity--Cases, Reubens, Paul--Cases, Stern, Howard--Cases

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...The Big Chill Censorship: Paul Reubens...Crackdown on "Obscenity" Could Freeze...his "vintage art collection...misdemeanor obscenity charge, pay...view it as art.... They seized...the hammer of censorship may come down...targeting adult obscenity. The American...amount to pure censorship and appear...
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In Praise of Censorship

Magazine article by Stanley C. Brubaker; Public Interest, Winter 1994

Subjects:

Art--Censorship, Censorship--Analysis, Enlightenment--Analysis, Postmodernism--Analysis, Republicanism--Analysis

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...content of what is to be funded. Consider first the case of true censorship. Here, constitutional analysis has long recognized the distinction...by the social interest in order and morality. The law of obscenity is a good example. The Court has consistently ruled that obscenity...
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In Canada, Debate on Morality Frames Art

Magazine article by Chi Chi Sileo; Insight on the News, Vol. 10, July 18, 1994

Subjects:

Art--Censorship, Brooks, Sharon--Cases, Canada--Social policy, Child pornography--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Freedom and art--Cases, Hume, Christopher--Attitudes, Langer, Eli--Cases, Mercer Union--Cases, Taylor, Kate--Attitudes

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...invoke freedom of expression rights to defend the work. If the art is judged pornographic, it will be destroyed. "Its a horrible...cause real harm.) The criminal code contains prohibitions on obscenity and child pornography and originally outlawed only the creation...
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The Perils of Pornophobia

Magazine article by Nadine Strossen; The Humanist, Vol. 55, May-June 1995

Subjects:

Censorship--Social aspects, Erotic art--Censorship, Feminists--Social policy, Pornography--Censorship, Sex in art--Censorship

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...censor works of art because they...long known that censorship is a dangerous...charged with "obscenity," and prosecuted...pornography." Censorship, however, is...definition of obscenity that the lower...unsupportive of the pro-censorship cause. There...its liberalized obscenity laws. There...

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Legal Luminaries Stress Line between Obscenity, Art Just a Gossamer Thread

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, August 30, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...drawn nor divided, jurists say. "Art and censorship will always be at odds. Taste of people...themselves to determine which work of art is acceptable and which are not." But...the individual differences of people. "Obscenity is subjective," so says former Youth Rep...
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SUN,SEA AND CENSORSHIP; His Saucy Postcards Sold Millions and Captured an Age of Innocence. but Artist Donald McGill Was Vilified, Arrested and Eventually Died in Penury

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 3, 2004

Subjects:

Orwell, George

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...show at the Cartoon Art Trust museum in London...20th century, local censorship boards could have...pleading guilty to an obscenity charge on the advice...plunge, and by 1906, censorship boards in the North...in his essay The Art of Donald McGill...dismissed them as art, saying they had...
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I Was the Little Girl in the 'Art Porn' Picture Police Banned across the World; Her Stepfather Died of AIDS, Grandfather Was Lord Lambton of Call Girl Infamy and She Confesses She's a Lesbian

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), September 15, 1996

Subjects:

Mapplethorpe, Robert

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...current debate over censorship and free expression...Bureau, said: `For art to be used as...riots and a US obscenity trial - come to...could well bring obscenity charges if it...in the New York art set of the Seventies...was charged with obscenity and tried in court...a lawyer and art expert, says...
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What DOES It Take for a Film to Get Banned These Days? as Censors Approve a Movie That Plumbs Grotesque New Depths of Sexual Explicitness and Violence, One Critic (Who Prides Himself on Being Broad-Minded) Asks Despairingly ..

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 20, 2009

Subjects:

Censorship, Motion pictures, Movies, Violence

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...judgment. As Ernest Hemingway said of obscenity in a justifiably disgusting image, you...such fashionable torture porn -- sorry, art -- not ask us our opinion. Since sex and...film passes muster, surely anything will? Censorship today seems to have been reduced to the...
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`Community Standards' Ruling Stands: On-Line Porn Judged by Download Site

Newspaper article by Joyce Price; The Washington Times, February 16, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Civil Liberties Unions Art Censorship Project, said: "Do we...along that the current obscenity law is broad enough...the transmission of obscenity over computers," said...for the regulation of obscenity based on the notion...

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Censorship

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the shipment of obscene literature and art, but it was after World War I that public controversy over censorship raged most fiercely. Until the Tariff...into the United States on grounds of obscenity. Even after the acts amendment censorship...

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