Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right

by Whitney Strub

Book Overview

While America is not alone in its ambivalence toward sex and its depictions, the preferences of the nation swing sharply between toleration and censure. This pattern has grown even more pronounced since the 1960s, with the emergence of the New Right and its attack on the "floodtide of filth" that was supposedly sweeping the nation. Antipornography campaigns became the New Right's political capital in the 1960s, laying the groundwork for the "family...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231148879
• ISBN13: 9780231148870
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.7"