Author: Henry Spencer Ashbee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Erotic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature: Centuria librorum absconditorum
Author: Henry Spencer Ashbee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Erotic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Erotic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
“The” Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature
Author: Henry Spencer Ashbee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Erotic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Erotic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Centuria librorum absconditorum
Author: Henry Spencer Ashbee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Erotic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Erotic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Licentious Gotham
Author: Donna Dennis
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674053731
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Licentious Gotham, set in the streets, news depots, publishing houses, grand jury chambers, and courtrooms of the nation's great metropolis, delves into the stories of the enterprising men and women who created a thriving transcontinental market for sexually arousing books and pictures. The experiences of fancy publishers, flash editors, and racy novelists, who all managed to pursue their trade in the face of laws criminalizing obscene publications, dramatically convey nineteenth-century America's daring notions of sex, gender, and desire, as well as the frequently counterproductive results of attempts to enforce conventional moral standards. In nineteenth-century New York, the business of erotic publishing and legal attacks on obscenity developed in tandem, with each activity shaping and even promoting the pursuit of the other. Obscenity prohibitions, rather than curbing salacious publications, inspired innovative new styles of forbidden literature--such as works highlighting expressions of passion and pleasure by middle-class American women. Obscenity prosecutions also spurred purveyors of lewd materials to devise novel schemes to evade local censorship by advertising and distributing their products through the mail. This subterfuge in turn triggered far-reaching transformations in strategies for policing obscenity. Donna Dennis offers a colorful, groundbreaking account of the birth of an indecent print trade and the origins of obscenity regulation in the United States. By revealing the paradoxes that characterized early efforts to suppress sexual expression in the name of morality, she suggests relevant lessons for our own day.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674053731
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Licentious Gotham, set in the streets, news depots, publishing houses, grand jury chambers, and courtrooms of the nation's great metropolis, delves into the stories of the enterprising men and women who created a thriving transcontinental market for sexually arousing books and pictures. The experiences of fancy publishers, flash editors, and racy novelists, who all managed to pursue their trade in the face of laws criminalizing obscene publications, dramatically convey nineteenth-century America's daring notions of sex, gender, and desire, as well as the frequently counterproductive results of attempts to enforce conventional moral standards. In nineteenth-century New York, the business of erotic publishing and legal attacks on obscenity developed in tandem, with each activity shaping and even promoting the pursuit of the other. Obscenity prohibitions, rather than curbing salacious publications, inspired innovative new styles of forbidden literature--such as works highlighting expressions of passion and pleasure by middle-class American women. Obscenity prosecutions also spurred purveyors of lewd materials to devise novel schemes to evade local censorship by advertising and distributing their products through the mail. This subterfuge in turn triggered far-reaching transformations in strategies for policing obscenity. Donna Dennis offers a colorful, groundbreaking account of the birth of an indecent print trade and the origins of obscenity regulation in the United States. By revealing the paradoxes that characterized early efforts to suppress sexual expression in the name of morality, she suggests relevant lessons for our own day.
What Pornography Knows
Author: Kathleen Lubey
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503633128
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
What Pornography Knows offers a new history of pornography based on forgotten bawdy fiction of the eighteenth century, its nineteenth-century republication, and its appearance in 1960s paperbacks. Through close textual study, Lubey shows how these texts were edited across time to become what we think pornography is—a genre focused primarily on sex. Originally, they were far more variable, joining speculative philosophy and feminist theory to sexual description. Lubey's readings show that pornography always had a social consciousness—that it knew, long before anti-pornography feminists said it, that women and nonbinary people are disadvantaged by a society that grants sexual privilege to men. Rather than glorify this inequity, Lubey argues, the genre's central task has historically been to expose its artifice and envision social reform. Centering women's bodies, pornography refuses to divert its focus from genital action, forcing readers to connect sex with its social outcomes. Lubey offers a surprising take on a deeply misunderstood cultural form: pornography transforms sexual description into feminist commentary, revealing the genre's deep knowledge of how social inequities are perpetuated as well as its plans for how to rectify them.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503633128
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
What Pornography Knows offers a new history of pornography based on forgotten bawdy fiction of the eighteenth century, its nineteenth-century republication, and its appearance in 1960s paperbacks. Through close textual study, Lubey shows how these texts were edited across time to become what we think pornography is—a genre focused primarily on sex. Originally, they were far more variable, joining speculative philosophy and feminist theory to sexual description. Lubey's readings show that pornography always had a social consciousness—that it knew, long before anti-pornography feminists said it, that women and nonbinary people are disadvantaged by a society that grants sexual privilege to men. Rather than glorify this inequity, Lubey argues, the genre's central task has historically been to expose its artifice and envision social reform. Centering women's bodies, pornography refuses to divert its focus from genital action, forcing readers to connect sex with its social outcomes. Lubey offers a surprising take on a deeply misunderstood cultural form: pornography transforms sexual description into feminist commentary, revealing the genre's deep knowledge of how social inequities are perpetuated as well as its plans for how to rectify them.
Pornography and Sexual Representation
Author: Joseph W. Slade
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
A three volume reference guide to the available literature concerning pornography and sexual representation in America.
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
A three volume reference guide to the available literature concerning pornography and sexual representation in America.
Encyclopedia of Censorship
Author: Jonathon Green
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438110014
Category : Censorship
Languages : en
Pages : 721
Book Description
Articles examine the history and evolution of censorship, presented in A to Z format.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438110014
Category : Censorship
Languages : en
Pages : 721
Book Description
Articles examine the history and evolution of censorship, presented in A to Z format.
Reference & User Services Quarterly
Author:
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Category : Bibliographical services
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliographical services
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
University of California Union Catalog of Monographs Cataloged by the Nine Campuses from 1963 Through 1967: Authors & titles
Author: University of California (System). Institute of Library Research
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
University of Toronto Quarterly
Author: University of Toronto
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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