Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights

New
Illustrated
2000
$35.88

Reissued with a new foreword and introduction by the author

Traditional explanations of why pornography must be defended from would-be censors have concentrated on censorship's adverse impacts on free speech and sexual autonomy. In contrast, Nadine Strossen focuses on the women's rights-centered rationale for defending pornography.

Synopsis

Reissued with a new foreword and introduction by the author

Traditional explanations of why pornography must be defended from would-be censors have concentrated on censorship's adverse impacts on free speech and sexual autonomy. In contrast, Nadine Strossen focuses on the women's rights-centered rationale for defending pornography.

$35.88

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10 in stock

More Information

Format: Illustrated
Pages: 320
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 31 May 2000
ISBN 10: 0814781497
ISBN 13: 9780814781494

Media Reviews

A passionately argued, cogently written, lively discourse on the increasingly peculiar politics of sex.

-New York Times Book Review

Antiporn feminists have been cruising for a forensic bruising since the early eighties. Defending Pornography lands quite a blow.

-Entertainment Weekly

Proves without a doubt that free expression is an essential foundation for women's liberty, equality, and sexuality.

-Betty Friedan

Strong medicine for all those who would censor sexual expression in cyberspace.

-Jerry Berman,Executive Director, Center for Democracy and Technology

Defending Pornography is valuable precisely because of its lucid, broad exploration of the long debate over pornography.

-The Washington Post Book World

Author Bio

A nationally renowned speaker and debater, NADINE STROSSEN is Professor of Law at New York Law School and President of the American Civil Liberties Union.