
Perversion for Profit
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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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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
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