The Secret Museum
Pornography in Modern Culture
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Author
Contributions
- Steve Renick (Designer) - Contributor
Publication
1997-02-06 - University of California Press
Language
English
Word Count
72,000 words, Guess
Page Count
288 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7710302M
- ISBN-139780520207295
- ISBN-100520207297
- OCLC Control Number34547421
- OCLC Control Numbersecretmuseumporn0000kend
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number96008107
- Goodreads455550
- LibraryThing358852
Classifications
- LCCHQ471.K45 1996
Description
Although erotica has always existed, "pornography" is a recent phenomenon: as late as the eighteenth century the word did not exist. From the secret museums to the pornography trials of Madame Bovary and Lady Chatterly's Lover, to Mapplethorpe, cable TV, and the Internet, Walter Kendrick explores how conceptions of pornography relate to issues of freedom of expression and censorship. He provides, too, a fascinating portrait gallery of the jurists, artists, guardians of public morality, sleaze merchants, and civil libertarians who have played roles in the changing definitions of pornography.
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