The Problem of Pornography: Regulation and the Right to Free Speech

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Taylor & Francis US, 1994 - 197 páginas
Can a commitment to free speech be reconciled with the regulation of pornography? In The Problem of Pornography, Susan M. Easton argues that it can. Using John Stuart Mill's harm principle as a starting-point, Easton explores and evaluates the feminist and liberal arguments in the debate on pornography, moral independence, censorship and the right to free speech. Given the problems of proving harm in the case of pornography, she argues that the concept of autonomy may provide a more suitable foundation for regulation, and shows how the legislation against incitement to racial hatred might serve as a model for legal constraints on pornography. This book includes a review of the English and American laws on obscene materials and will prove invaluable reading for anyone interested in one of the thorniest issues in feminist, legal and social theory: is the censorship of pornography justifiable?
 

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The liberal defence of pornography
1
The types of harm
10
Proving harm
32
Diversity and autonomy
42
Feminism truth and infallibility
52
Free speech and majoritarianism
59
The slippery slope
65
Feminism and puritanism 2
79
Freedom of speech and the regulation of pornography in English law
122
The right to consume pornography
145
Incitement to sexual hatred
158
Conclusion
175
Notes
179
Bibliography
184
Table of statutes
189
Table of cases
190

The protection of free speech
85
Interpreting the First Amendment
94
The civil rights Ordinances
109

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Susan Easton is a barrister and Lecturer in Law at Brunel University, London. She has written on Hegel and feminism and is the author of The Right to Silence, Disorder and Discipline and Humanist Marxism and Wittgensteinian Social Philosophy. She is Editor of the International Journal of Discrimination and the Law.

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