Blue Politics : : Pornography and the Law in the Age of Feminism / / Dany Lacombe.

In 1985 the Special Committee on Pornography and Prostitution, the Fraser Committee, recommended the criminalization of violent and degrading sexually explicit material on the ground that it harmed women. On two occasions (in 1986 with Bill C-114 and in 1987 with Bill C-54) the Mulroney government p...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (229 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • Part 1. Pornography as an object of knowledge
  • 2. The Emergence of a Feminist Position on Pornography
  • 3. Compliance with and Resistance to the Feminist Claim of Harm
  • Part 2. Institutional practices
  • Introduction to Part 2
  • 4. The Special Committee on Pornography and Prostitution
  • 5. Bill C-114: The First Attempt at Pornography Law Reform
  • 6. Bill C-54: The Impossible Compromise
  • 7. The Enabling Quality of Law Reform
  • Epilogue. Postmodern Art in the Age of Obscenity
  • Appendix: List of Sources
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index