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Hardcover Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights Book

ISBN: 0684197499

ISBN13: 9780684197494

Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights

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A women's rights-centered rationale for defending pornography Traditional explanations of why pornography must be defended from would-be censors have concentrated on censorship's adverse impacts on free speech and sexual autonomy. In contrast, Nadine Strossen focuses on the women's rights-centered rationale for defending pornography. Reissued with a new foreword and introduction by the author. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Rated 5 stars
civil liberties

Excellent argument from civil liberties point of view. Very well written. Author was president of American Civil Liberties Union for 18 years; and a constitutional law professor.

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A must read for debaters

Despite the acrimony of some (obviously biased) reviewers, this is an outstanding book. Strossen has become a regular source for high school and collegiate debaters for precisely the type of solid analysis you'll find here. The legal argumentation is great and its nice to hear from an actual lawyer, not merely a social scientist who thinks s/he understands the field.The rest of the book is also well-written, good structure...

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Don't Let the Title Fool You.

This is a well-written, insightful and thought-provoking book on women's rights. Strossen (a New York Law School professor and feminist) points out that women do not really have to choose between freedom and security as the pro-censorship feminists would have us all believe. She refutes the position of Dworkin and MacKinnon that all sexual expression is degrading to women because all sex is rape.Strossen shows that there...

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Very Informative and Insightful

A carefully written book that tackles many of the difficult issues in the field of first amendment jurisprudence. Nadine Strossen explains the underlying inconsistancies with the anti-porn, procensorship view. Brilliantly written!! For those interested in reading about free speech issues, I also recommend "Beyond the Burning Cross : A Landmark Case of Race, Censorship and the First Amendment" by Edward Cleary.

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An important defense of the First Amendment

I liked the carefully reasoned defense of pornography in this book. By the end of this book you will be able to stand up to the mcDworkinites and their ilk. You will also be just a bit tired of hearing the same argument repeated from every possible angle. The author points out that victim's like Linda Lovelace are rare and snuff films are mythology. However, you will have to go elsewhere to find a solid analysis of what pornography...

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