What Are We Protecting Here? The Cultural Construction of Gender in Obscenity Law

This dissertation then offers a detailed examination of the written decision for Roth v. United States, and the oral transcript of the Supreme Court trial. Roth is a landmark case, not only because of its legal implications, but because it writes out of United States law, in relation to obscenity, the use of protectionist discourse as a reason to censor sexually explicit materials. After Roth as a society, we could not use the protection of women as a reason to censor texts. Culturally, this helped empower women to become agents of their sexuality.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communications

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Baughman, Linda Lee

Contributors dc:contributor

• Grossberg, Lawrence

• Women's Studies

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9952960

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/86619