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Perversion for Profit - The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right (Paperback)
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Perversion for Profit - The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right (Paperback)
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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 values"
agenda that shifted the country to the right. Perversion for Profit
traces the anatomy of this trend and the crucial function of
pornography in constructing the New Right agenda, which has
emphasized social issues over racial and economic inequality.
Conducting his own extensive research, Whitney Strub vividly
recreates the debates over obscenity that consumed members of the
ACLU in the 1950s and revisits the deployment of obscenity charges
against purveyors of gay erotica during the cold war, revealing the
differing standards applied to heterosexual and homosexual
pornography. He follows the rise of the influential Citizens for
Decent Literature during the 1960s and the pivotal events that
followed: the sexual revolution, feminist activism, the rise of the
gay rights movement, the "porno chic" moment of the early 1970s,
and resurgent Christian conservatism, which now shapes public
policy far beyond the issue of sexual decency. Strub also examines
the ways in which the left failed to mount a serious or sustained
counterattack to the New Right's use of pornography as a political
tool. As he demonstrates, this failure put the Democratic Party at
the mercy of Republican rhetoric. In placing debates about
pornography at the forefront of American postwar history, Strub
revolutionizes our understanding of sex and American politics.
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