The Repeal of Reticence: America's Cultural and Legal Struggles Over Free Speech, Obscenity, Sexual Liberation, and Modern Art

Rochelle Gurstein

ISBN 10: 0809016125 / ISBN 13: 9780809016129

Published by Hill and Wang, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Repeal of Reticence: America's Cultural and Legal Struggles Over Free Speech, Obscenity, Sexual Liberation, and Modern Art
• Publisher: Hill and Wang
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809016125
• ISBN 13: 9780809016129
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New
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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Rochelle Gurstein, professor of history at the Bard Graduate Center, lives in New York City. She is the author of The Repeal of Reticence.