Lexington Books
Pages: 244
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-4985-7260-6 • Hardback • June 2020 • $100.00 • (£77.00)
978-1-4985-7262-0 • Paperback • May 2022 • $39.99 • (£31.00)
978-1-4985-7261-3 • eBook • June 2020 • $38.00 • (£29.00)
Lynn Mills Eckert is associate professor of political science at Marist College.
Part I - Sociology of Knowledge - “We Already Regulate Pornography for Gender-Based Reasons without Acknowledging It”
Chapter 1 - Regulating Pornography: Comparing the Zoning Approach and Nude Dancing Cases to Hudnut
Chapter 2 - Language Games and the Zoning and Nude Dancing Cases
Part II - The Legal Landscape that Acts to Exclude Knowledge Claims about Pornography
Chapter 3 - Categories and Epistemic Gatekeeping in Free Speech Jurisprudence
Chapter 4 - A Critique of the Content-Neutrality Principle
Chapter 5 - Proving Pornography’s Harms - Where Speech Act Theory, Causality, and the Performative Fall Short
Chapter 6 - Discursive Effects: A Different Framework to Understand the Harm from Speech
Part III - Liberal Law and a New Theory of Harm
Chapter 7 - Discursive Effects and Liberal Law
Chapter 8 - Reconsidering the tension between Liberty and Equality
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