LEADER 04373nam 2200769 450 001 9910554266803321 005 20230629215252.0 010 $a9781503628694$b(electronic book) 010 $a1503628698$b(electronic book) 010 $z9781503627598$b(hardback) 024 7 $a10.1515/9781503628694 035 $a(CKB)4100000011970989 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6647563 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6647563 035 $a(OCoLC)1265460899 035 $a(DE-B1597)591080 035 $a(OCoLC)1266229317 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781503628694 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011970989 100 $a20220321d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||####a|||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $asti$2rdacontent 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDirty works $eobscenity on trial in America's first sexual revolution /$fBrett Gary 210 1$aStanford, California :$cStanford University Press,$d[2021] 210 4$dİ2021 215 $a1 online resource (434 pages) $cillustrations 311 08$aPrint version: Gary, Brett. Dirty works. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021] 9781503627598 (DLC) 2020052598 (OCoLC)1224044805 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMoral guardians and sexual modernists -- Fighting for sexual education : Mary Ware Dennett vs. postal power -- Women's right to sexual pleasure : Marie Stopes vs. Customs Authority -- The taboo of inversion : Radclyffe Hall and literary censorship -- The vomit school of literature : fighting censorship in NYC -- Defending literary genius : James Joyce's Ulysses on trial -- Battles for birth control : Margaret Sanger and the moral authority of doctors -- The allure of the erotic : Alfred Kinsey and sexual science, 1947-1957 -- From the first to the second sexual revolution -- Epilogue : Morris Ernst's complicated legacy. 330 $a"This book focuses on a series of courtroom cases that were all represented by the same lawyer: Morris L. Ernst. Ernst's clients included European and American literati and sexual activists, among them Margaret Sanger, James Joyce, and Alfred Kinsey. They, along with a cast of burlesque theater owners and bookstore clerks, had run afoul of strict obscenity laws, and became actors in Ernst's legal theater that ultimately forced the law to recognize people's right to freely consume media. In this book, Brett Gary recovers the critically neglected Ernst as the most important legal defender of literary expression and reproductive rights by the mid-twentieth century. Each chapter centers on one or more key trials from Ernst's career battling censorship and obscenity laws, using them to tell a broader story of cultural changes and conflicts around sex, morality, and free speech ideals. These trials sets the stage, legally and culturally, for the sexual revolution of the 1960s and beyond. In the latter half of the century, the courts had a powerful body of precedents, many owing to Ernst's courtroom successes, that recognized adult interests in sexuality, women's needs for reproductive control, and the legitimacy of sexual inquiry"--Provided by the publisher. 606 $aTrials (Obscenity)$xHistory$zUnited States$y20th century 606 $aObscenity (Law)$xHistory$zUnited States$y20th century 610 $aAlfred Kinsey. 610 $aComstock obscenity laws. 610 $aHarriet Pilpel. 610 $aJames Joyce. 610 $aJohn Sumner. 610 $aMargaret Sanger. 610 $aMarie Stopes. 610 $aMary Ware Dennett. 610 $aMorris Ernst. 610 $aNew York Society for the Suppression of Vice. 610 $aObscenity law censorship. 610 $aRadclyffe Hall. 610 $aUS Customs censorship. 610 $aUS Postal censorship. 610 $abirth control. 610 $aliterary censorship. 610 $amarriage manuals. 610 $aobscenity trials. 610 $asex education. 610 $asex research. 615 0$aTrials (Obscenity)$xHistory 615 0$aObscenity (Law)$xHistory 676 $a345.7470274 700 $aGary$b Brett$01219462 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910554266803321 996 $aDirty works$92819710 997 $aUNINA