Lynn Mills Eckert

Free Speech Law and the Pornography Debate

A Gender-Based Approach to Regulating Inegalitarian Pornography

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By examining the highly contested legal debate about the regulation of pornography through an epistemic lens, this book analyzes competing claims about the proper role of speech in our society, pornography's harm, the relationship between speech and equality, and whether law should regulate and, if so, upon what grounds.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 402g
• ISBN-13: 9781498572620
• ISBN-10: 1498572626
• Artikelnr.: 63595902

Autorenporträt

Lynn Mills Eckert is associate professor of political science at Marist College.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I - Sociology of Knowledge - "We Already Regulate Pornography for
Gender-Based Reasons without Acknowledging It"
Chapter 1 - Regulating Pornography: Comparing the Zoning Approach and Nude
Dancing Cases to Hudnut
Chapter 2 - Language Games and the Zoning and Nude Dancing Cases
Part II - The Legal Landscape that Acts to Exclude Knowledge Claims about
Pornography
Chapter 3 - Categories and Epistemic Gatekeeping in Free Speech
Jurisprudence
Chapter 4 - A Critique of the Content-Neutrality Principle
Chapter 5 - Proving Pornography's Harms - Where Speech Act Theory,
Causality, and the Performative Fall Short
Chapter 6 - Discursive Effects: A Different Framework to Understand the
Harm from Speech
Part III - Liberal Law and a New Theory of Harm
Chapter 7 - Discursive Effects and Liberal Law
Chapter 8 - Reconsidering the tension between Liberty and Equality