Susan Easton

The Problem of Pornography (eBook, PDF)

Regulation and the Right to Free Speech

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134873500
• Artikelnr.: 42710813

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 The liberal defence of pornography
Chapter 2 The types of harm
Chapter 3 Proving harm
Chapter 4 Diversity and autonomy
Chapter 5 Feminism, truth and infallibility
Chapter 6 Free speech and majoritarianism
Chapter 7 The slippery slope
Chapter 8 Feminism and puritanism
Chapter 9 The protection of free speech
Chapter 10 Interpreting the First Amendment
Chapter 11 The civil rights Ordinances
Chapter 12 Freedom of speech and the regulation of pornography in English law
Chapter 13 The 'right' to consume pornography
Chapter 14 Incitement to sexual hatred
Chapter 15 Conclusion