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Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right
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Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right
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publisher
Columbia University Press,
publication year
2010
description
Perversion for Profit tracks battles over pornography over six decades from the 1950s to George W. Bush’s administration. Strub adeptly explains how we can understand the culture wars through the lens of pornography. He argues that sexual politics lay at the heart of the strength accrued by the New Right in the postwar period. The liberal consensus fractured, in part, through its two-faced stance toward pornography. Liberals championed sexual expression but denied legitimizing prurience. No liberals defended pornography during this period. The New Right was able to seize the discourse turning fears about pornography’s influence into a series of moral panics which empowered conservative politicians and rationalized new forms of regulation. This book adds a significant contribution to histories of conservatives and the rise of the New Right and deserves the widest possible readership.
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reviewer
Leo Valdes
was created by
Strub, Whitney