Can a commitment to free speech be reconciled with the regulation of pornography? Easton explores and evaluates the feminist and liberal arguments to establish that it can. A text invaluable to anyone interested in this, the thorniest of issues.
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`It provides a forceful account of the feminist case for restriction...' - John Horton, Keele University
| Acknowledgements |
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| Introduction |
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The liberal defence of pornography |
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1 | (9) |
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10 | (22) |
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32 | (10) |
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42 | (10) |
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Feminism, truth and infallibility |
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52 | (7) |
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Free speech and majoritarianism |
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59 | (6) |
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65 | (14) |
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79 | (6) |
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The protection of free speech |
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85 | (9) |
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Interpreting the First Amendment |
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94 | (15) |
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The civil rights Ordinances |
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109 | (13) |
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Freedom of speech and the regulation of pornography in English law |
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122 | (23) |
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The `right' to consume pornography |
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145 | (13) |
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Incitement to sexual hatred |
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158 | (17) |
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175 | (4) |
| Notes |
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179 | (5) |
| Bibliography |
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184 | (5) |
| Table of statutes |
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189 | (1) |
| Table of cases |
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190 | (3) |
| Index |
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193 | |
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.
