The Repeal of Reticence

America's Cultural and Legal Struggles Over Free Speech, Obscenity, Sexual Liberation, and Modern Art

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science
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Author: Rochelle Gurstein ISBN: 9781466895423
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publication: January 5, 2016
Imprint: Hill and Wang Language: English
Author: Rochelle Gurstein
ISBN: 9781466895423
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication: January 5, 2016
Imprint: Hill and Wang
Language: English

At a time when America's faculties of taste and judgment—along with the sense of the sacred and shameful—have become utterly vacant, Rochelle Gurstein's The Repeal of Reticence delivers an important and troubling warning. Covering landmark developments in America's modern culture and law, she charts the demise of what was dismissively called "gentility" in the face of First Amendment triumphs for journalists, sex educators, and novelists—from Margaret Sanger's advocacy of birth control to Judge Woolsey's celebrated defense of Ulysses. Weaving together a study of the legal debates over obscenity and free speech with a cultural study of the critics and writers who framed the issues, Gurstein offers a trenchant reconsideration of the sacred value of privacy.

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At a time when America's faculties of taste and judgment—along with the sense of the sacred and shameful—have become utterly vacant, Rochelle Gurstein's The Repeal of Reticence delivers an important and troubling warning. Covering landmark developments in America's modern culture and law, she charts the demise of what was dismissively called "gentility" in the face of First Amendment triumphs for journalists, sex educators, and novelists—from Margaret Sanger's advocacy of birth control to Judge Woolsey's celebrated defense of Ulysses. Weaving together a study of the legal debates over obscenity and free speech with a cultural study of the critics and writers who framed the issues, Gurstein offers a trenchant reconsideration of the sacred value of privacy.

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