Free Speech Law and the Pornography Debate: A Gender-Based Approach to Regulating Inegalitarian Pornography...

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Lynn Mills Eckert

Free Speech Law and the Pornography Debate

A Gender-Based Approach to Regulating Inegalitarian Pornography

Lynn Mills Eckert

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English

Lexington Books
11 May 2022

Ethical issues: pornography & obscenity; Freedom of information & freedom of speech; Freedom of expression law

By examining the highly contested legal debate about the regulation of pornography through an epistemic lens, this book analyzes competing claims about the proper role of speech in our society, pornography’s harm, the relationship between speech and equality, and whether law should regulate and, if so, upon what grounds. In maintaining that inegalitarian pornography generates discursive effects, the book contends that law cannot simply adopt a libertarian approach to free speech. While inegalitarian pornography may not be determinative of gender inequality, it does contribute, reinforce, reflect and help maintain such unfairness. As a result, we can place reasonable gender-based regulations on inegalitarian pornography while upholding our most treasured commitments to dissident speech just as other liberal democracies with strong free speech traditions have done.

By: Lynn Mills Eckert
Imprint: Lexington Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 220mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 372g
ISBN: 9781498572620
ISBN 10: 1498572626
Pages: 244
Publication Date: 11 May 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lynn Mills Eckert is associate professor of political science at Marist College.

Reviews for Free Speech Law and the Pornography Debate: A Gender-Based Approach to Regulating Inegalitarian Pornography

An original and deeply insightful analysis of indirect strategies employed by American law to regulate pornography and the sex industry. Building on a wide range of feminist and critical race scholarship, Eckert's book displays the historically and culturally biased systems of knowledge production that shape what counts as harms, and offers a new theory of discursive harm. By rejecting simplistic accounts of objectivity, evidence, and neutrality, Eckert challenges us to deepen the liberal and egalitarian aspirations that underlie our constitution. A terrific book! -- Stephen Macedo, Princeton University