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Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right
Whitney Strub
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Description for Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right
Hardback. Num Pages: 400 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFMP; JPFM; JPWD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 644.
While America is not alone in its ambivalence toward sex and its depictions, the preferences of the nation swing sharply between toleration and censure. This pattern has grown even more pronounced since the 1960s, with the emergence of the New Right and its attack on the "floodtide of filth" that was supposedly sweeping the nation. Antipornography campaigns became the New Right's political capital in the 1960s, laying the groundwork for the "family values" agenda that shifted the country to the right. Perversion for Profit traces the anatomy of this trend and the crucial function of pornography in constructing the New ... Read more
While America is not alone in its ambivalence toward sex and its depictions, the preferences of the nation swing sharply between toleration and censure. This pattern has grown even more pronounced since the 1960s, with the emergence of the New Right and its attack on the "floodtide of filth" that was supposedly sweeping the nation. Antipornography campaigns became the New Right's political capital in the 1960s, laying the groundwork for the "family values" agenda that shifted the country to the right. Perversion for Profit traces the anatomy of this trend and the crucial function of pornography in constructing the New ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231148863
SKU
V9780231148863
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About Whitney Strub
Whitney Strub is an assistant professor of history at Rutgers University, Newark. His writing has appeared in American Quarterly, Journal of the History of Sexuality, Journal of Social History, PopMatters, and Bad Subjects. He lives in Center City, Philadelphia.
Reviews for Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right
[Strub] conveys how pornography comes into contact with greater narratives of obscenity, permissiveness, sexuality, and gender. It is apparent from [his] accounts how pornography is a vital and rich subject for analyzing a range of social pressures and competing narratives. H-Histsex Perversion for Profit situates the pornography battles within the tricky ideological crosscurrents of the culture war.
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