Not in front of the children : "indecency," censorship and the innocence of youth / Marjorie Heins.
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New York :
Hill and Wang,
2001.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION
- From Plato to Computers
- Youth and Censorship: A Road Map
- Clarifications and Caveats
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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"
- Notes
- Index