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Before Porn Was Legal
Elizabeth D. Heineman
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Description for Before Porn Was Legal
Hardcover. Brings to light the profound social, legal, and cultural changes that attended the growth of the erotica sector. This title includes readings of government and industry records, oral histories, and erotica industry's products uncover the roots of sexual marketplace and reveal the indelible ways in which sexual expression have become intertwined. Num Pages: 320 pages, 23 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 166 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
Struggling to survive in post - World War II Germany, Beate Uhse (1921-2001) - a former Luftwaffe pilot, war widow, and young mother - turned to selling goods on the black market. A self-penned guide to the rhythm method found eager buyers and started Uhse on her path to becoming the world's largest erotica entrepreneur. Battling restrictive legislation, powerful churches, and conservative social mores, she built a mail-order business in the 1950s that sold condoms, sex aids, self-help books, and more. The following decades brought the world's first erotica shop, the legalization of pornography, the expansion of her business into ... Read more
Struggling to survive in post - World War II Germany, Beate Uhse (1921-2001) - a former Luftwaffe pilot, war widow, and young mother - turned to selling goods on the black market. A self-penned guide to the rhythm method found eager buyers and started Uhse on her path to becoming the world's largest erotica entrepreneur. Battling restrictive legislation, powerful churches, and conservative social mores, she built a mail-order business in the 1950s that sold condoms, sex aids, self-help books, and more. The following decades brought the world's first erotica shop, the legalization of pornography, the expansion of her business into ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226325217
SKU
V9780226325217
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About Elizabeth D. Heineman
Elizabeth Heineman is associate professor in the Departments of History and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa and the author of What Difference Does a Husband Make? Women and Marital Status in Nazi and Postwar Germany.
Reviews for Before Porn Was Legal
"This is a well-written work of exhaustive scholarship. Heineman approaches her topic from multiple perspectives and thus offers a very interesting methodological take on the subject. She has a great story to tell, one that will be read by a broad public interested not only in modern Germany but also in the history of sexuality, consumer culture, and the ways ... Read more