Not in front of the children : "indecency," censorship and the innocence of youth /
From Huckleberry Finn to Harry Potter, Internet filters to the V-chip, censorship is often based on the assumption that children and adolescents must be protected from "indecent" information that might harm their development -- whether in art, in literature, or on a Web site. But where doe...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Hill and Wang,
2001
New York : 2002, c2001 New York : c2001 New York : 2001 |
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Table of Contents:
- 1 To Deprave and Corrupt
- Minors, Censorship, Sex, and History
- The Invention of Childhood?
- Protecting the Young and Immature
- Free Love, the Comstock Law, and Secret Entertainment
- Some Judges Start Asking Questions
- 2. More Emetic Than Aphrodisiac
- Freud, the First Amendment, and a First Round with Ulysses
- Minors and Obscenity in the '30s and '40s
- Juvenile Delinquency, Social Science, Comic Books, and Professor Kinsey
- Intellectual Rumblings
- 3. The Great and Mysterious Motive Force in Human Life
- The Supreme Court Speaks - Finally
- Protecting Young Psyches After Butler and Roth
- Buttons, Armbands, The Little Red School Book, and Rupert Bear
- Justice Brennan Changes His Mind
- 4. Policing the Airwaves
- Oral Sex, and the Public Convenience, Interest, or Necessity
- Jerry Garcia and a Definition for Indecency
- Shielding Young Ears from the Seven Dirty Words
- Pacifica in the Supreme Court
- 5. The Reign of Decency
- The FCC, the Meese Commission, and Art About AIDS
- ACT I, the Irrepressible Mr. Stern, and Perhaps Molly Bloom
- Sealed Wrappers, Blinder Racks, and Dial-a-Porn
- A Few Judges Think About Indecency and Harm
- School Censorship, Heinous Crimes, and Violent Videos
- 6. The Ideological Minefield: Sexuality Education
- Modesty, Virtue, and Early Battles over Sex Ed
- Teen Pregnancy and Sex Respect
- Abstinence Unless Married
- Models of Sexuality Education
- 7. Indecency Law on Trial: Reno V. ACLU
- Panic over Cyberspace
- The Wired Courtroom
- A Never-Ending Worldwide Conversation
- 8. Filtering Fever
- The Politics of Filtering - Blocking Sex, Vulgarity, and Dr. Seuss
- State Laws, Loudoun County, and Reno II
- Heavy Breathing: The "Harry Met Sally" Case
- V-Chips, and Ratings Revisited
- Violence, Curse Words, and Kids at Century's End
- 9. Cultural Differences
- Minors in the Global Culture
- Video Nasties and the Venerable BBFC
- The French Letter and Internet Watch
- The European Union Weighs In
- "Les Dangers Ubuesques du Filtrage"
- 10. Media Effects
- Imitation and Catharsis
- Disproving Aristotle
- Definitional Dilemmas
- Sex, Violence, and Social Science
- Kids, Ambiguity, and the Social Cognition Approach. Conclusion: "The Ethical and Moral Development of Youth"
- 1 To Deprave and Corrupt. Minors, Censorship, Sex, and History. The Invention of Childhood? Protecting the Young and Immature. Free Love, the Comstock Law, and Secret Entertainment. Some Judges Start Asking Questions
- 2. More Emetic Than Aphrodisiac. Freud, the First Amendment, and a First Round with Ulysses. Minors and Obscenity in the '30s and '40s. Juvenile Delinquency, Social Science, Comic Books, and Professor Kinsey. Intellectual Rumblings
- 3. The Great and Mysterious Motive Force in Human Life. The Supreme Court Speaks - Finally. Protecting Young Psyches After Butler and Roth. Buttons, Armbands, The Little Red School Book, and Rupert Bear. Justice Brennan Changes His Mind
- 4. Policing the Airwaves. Oral Sex, and the Public Convenience, Interest, or Necessity. Jerry Garcia and a Definition for Indecency. Shielding Young Ears from the Seven Dirty Words. Pacifica in the Supreme Court
- 5. The Reign of Decency. The FCC, the Meese Commission, and Art About AIDS.
- Introduction
- From Plato to computers
- Youth and censorship : a road map
- Clarifications and caveats
- - [ch.] 1 "To deprave and corrupt"
- Minors, censorship, sex, and history
- The invention of childhood?
- "Protecting the young and immature"
- Free love, the Comstock Law, and "secret entertainment"
- Some judges start asking questions
- [ch.] 2. More emetic than aphrodisiac
- Freud, the First Amendment, and a first round with Ulysses
- Minors and obscenity in the '30s and '40s
- Juvenile delinquency, social science, comic books, and Professor Kinsey
- Intellectual rumblings
- [ch.] 3. The great and mysterious motive force in human life
- The Supreme Court speaks - finally
- Protecting young psyches after Butler and Roth
- Buttons, armbands, The little red school book, and Rupert Bear
- Justice Brennan changes his mind
- [ch.] 4. Policing the airwaves
- Oral sex, and "the public convenience, interest, or necessity"
- Jerry Garcia and a definition of indecency
- Shielding young ears from the seven dirty words
- Pacifica in the Supreme Court
- [ch.] 5. The reign of decency
- The FCC, the Meese Commission, and Art about AIDS
- ACT I, the irrepressible Mr. Stern, and perhaps Molly Bloom
- Sealed wrappers, blinder racks, and dial-a-porn
- A few judges think about indecency and harm
- School censorship, heinous crimes, and violent videos
- [ch.] 6. The ideological minefield : sexuality education
- Modesty, virtue, and early battles over sex ed
- Teen pregnancy and Sex respect
- Abstinence unless married
- Models of sexuality education
- [ch.] 7. Indecency law on trial : Reno v. ACLU
- Panic over cyberspace
- The wired courtroom
- A never-ending worldwide conversation
- [ch.] 8. Filtering fever
- The politics of filtering - blocking sex, vulgarity, and Dr. Seuss
- State laws, Loudoun County, and Reno II
- Heavy breathing : the "Harry met Sally" case
- V-chips, and ratings revisited
- Violence, curse words, and kids at century's end
- [ch.] 9. Cultural differences
- Minors in the global culture
- Video nasties and the venerable BBFC
- The French letter and Internet watch
- The European Union weighs in
- "Les dangers ubuesques du filtrage"
- [ch.] 10. Media effects
- Imitation and catharsis
- Disproving Aristotle
- Definitional dilemmas
- Sex, violence, and social science
- Kids, ambiguity, and the social cognition approach
- Conclusion: "The ethical and moral development of youth."
- Introduction
- From Plato to computers
- Youth and censorship : a road map
- Clarifications and caveats
- - [ch.] 1 "To deprave and corrupt"
- Minors, censorship, sex, and history
- The invention of childhood?
- "Protecting the young and immature"
- Free love, the Comstock Law, and "secret entertainment"
- Some judges start asking questions
- [ch.] 2. More emetic than aphrodisiac
- Freud, the First Amendment, and a first round with Ulysses
- Minors and obscenity in the '30s and '40s
- Juvenile delinquency, social science, comic books, and Professor Kinsey
- Intellectual rumblings
- [ch.] 3. The great and mysterious motive force in human life
- The Supreme Court speaks
- finally
- Protecting young psyches after Butler and Roth
- Buttons, armbands, The little red school book, and Rupert Bear
- Justice Brennan changes his mind
- [ch.] 4. Policing the airwaves
- Oral sex, and "the public convenience, interest, or necessity"
- Jerry Garcia and a definition of indecency
- Shielding young ears from the seven dirty words
- Pacifica in the Supreme Court
- [ch.] 5. The reign of decency
- The FCC, the Meese Commission, and Art about AIDS
- ACT I, the irrepressible Mr. Stern, and perhaps Molly Bloom
- Sealed wrappers, blinder racks, and dial-a-porn
- A few judges think about indecency and harm
- School censorship, heinous crimes, and violent videos
- [ch.] 6. The ideological minefield : sexuality education
- modesty, virtue, and early battles over sex ed
- Teen pregnancy and Sex respect
- Abstinence unless married
- Models of sexuality education
- [ch.] 7. Indecency law on trial : Reno v. ACLU
- Panic over cyberspace
- The wired courtroom
- A never-ending worldwide conversation
- [ch.] 8. Filtering fever
- The politics of filtering
- blocking sex, vulgarity, and Dr. Seuss
- State laws, Loudoun County, and Reno II
- Heavy breathing : the "Hary met Sally" case
- V-chips, and ratings revisited
- Violence, curse word, and kids at century's end
- [ch.] 9. Cultural differences
- Minors in the global culture
- Video nasties and the venerable BBFC
- The French letter and Internet watch
- The European Union weighs in
- "Les dangers ubuesques du filtrage"
- [ch.] 10. Media effects
- Imitation and catharsis
- Disproving Aristotle
- Definitional dilemmas
- Sex, violence, and social science
- Kids, ambiguity, and the social cognition approach
- Conclusion: The ethical and moral development of youth.
- 10 Media Effects. Imitation and Catharsis. Disproving Aristotle. Definitional Dilemmas. Sex, Violence, and Social Science. Kids, Ambiguity, and the Social Cognition Approach. Conclusion: "The Ethical and Moral Development of Youth"
- ACT I, the Irrepressible Mr. Stern, and Perhaps Molly Bloom Sealed Wrappers, Blinder Racks, and Dial-a-Porn. A Few Judges Think About Indecency and Harm. School Censorship, Heinous Crimes, and Violent Videos
- 6. The Ideological Minefield: Sexuality Education. Modesty, Virtue, and Early Battles over Sex Ed. Teen Pregnancy and Sex Respect. Abstinence Unless Married. Models of Sexuality Education
- 7. Indecency Law on Trial: Reno V. ACLU. Panic over Cyberspace. The Wired Courtroom. A Never-Ending Worldwide Conversation
- 8. Filtering Fever. The Politics of Filtering - Blocking Sex, Vulgarity, and Dr. Seuss. State Laws, Loudoun County, and Reno II. Heavy Breathing: The "Harry Met Sally" Case. V-Chips, and Ratings Revisited. Violence, Curse Words, and Kids at Century's End
- 9. Cultural Differences. Minors in the Global Culture. Video Nasties and the Venerable BBFC. The French Letter and Internet Watch. The European Union Weighs In. "Les Dangers Ubuesques du Filtrage"