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Book SynopsisTrade Review[Strub] conveys how pornography comes into contact with greater narratives of obscenity, permissiveness, sexuality, and gender. It is apparent from [his] accounts how pornography is a vital and rich subject for analyzing a range of social pressures and competing narratives. H-Histsex Perversion for Profit situates the pornography battles within the tricky ideological crosscurrents of the culture war. -- David T. Courtwright Journal of American History Strub does a masterful job of making the complicated postwar legal history of the shifting definitions of obscenity clear in a nuanced analysis that is always attentive to issues of gender and sexuality. -- David K. Johnson American Historical Review Well-researched and wide-ranging... [Perversion for Profit] deserves accolades for charting conservatism's ongoing affair with pornography and convincingly demonstrating the centrality of sexuality to an understanding of modern political history. -- Gillian Frank Journal of the History of Sexuality
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Rediscovery of Pornography: Emergence of a Cold War Moral Panic 2. Ambivalent Liberals: Theorizing Obscenity Under Consensus Constraints 3. Arousing the Public: Citizens for Decent Literature and the Emergence of the: Modern Antiporn Movement 4. Damning the Floodtide of Filth: The Rise of the New Right and the Political Capital of Moralism 5. The Permissive Society: Porno Chic and the Cultural Aftermath of the Sexual Revolution 6. Resurrecting Moralism: The Christian Right and the Porn Debate 7. Pornography Is the Practice, Where Is the Theory? Second-Wave Feminist Encounters with Porn 8. Vanilla Hegemony: Policing Sexual Boundaries in the Permanent Culture-War Economy Notes Acknowledgments Index
