ISBN: 9780809080694 - The Repeal of Reticence: A History of America's Cultural and Legal Struggles Over Free Speech, Obscenity, Sexual Liberation, and Modern Art (20 results)

Hardback. Condition: Good. This striking study of America's battles over what we can decently say and do in public traces how and why principled debate about the character of our common world has been displaced by a new kind of public noise. Rochelle Gurstein offers a brilliant history of the arguments made for and against the forces - invasive journalism, realist fiction, and sex reform - that altered public discourse between the late nineteenth century, when they first appeared, and the 1960s, when new controversies erupted about mass culture, avant-garde art, and sexual liberation. Now the public sphere is dominated by rights talk, by puritan-baiting, and by knee-jerk liberalism or illiberalism. Is this the best we can do? Gurstein gives a detailed account of how the party of exposure successfully opened American public life to matters that had once been hidden away in private, and studies the unexpected consequences of that victory. And she retrieves a way of thinking, wrongly discredited as Victorian, that could in fact move us beyond our stalemates over what should and what should not be said or done in public. Once, Americans influenced by the party of reticence held that if personal matters were exposed to public scrutiny they risked becoming trivial or obscene; they thought that any indiscriminate display of private matters deformed standards of taste and judgment, lowered the tone of public conversation, and polluted public space. Ms. Gurstein's penetrating analysis suggests that we must reconsider these positions, and she establishes the vital connection between our legal-cultural history and current debates about obscenity, privacy, and issues of public decency.…

Condition: Very Good. 1st. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. 1st. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Hardback. Condition: Good. This striking study of America's battles over what we can decently say and do in public traces how and why principled debate about the character of our common world has been displaced by a new kind of public noise. Rochelle Gurstein offers a brilliant history of the arguments made for and against the forces - invasive journalism, realist fiction, and sex reform - that altered public discourse between the late nineteenth century, when they first appeared, and the 1960s, when new controversies erupted about mass culture, avant-garde art, and sexual liberation. Now the public sphere is dominated by rights talk, by puritan-baiting, and by knee-jerk liberalism or illiberalism. Is this the best we can do? Gurstein gives a detailed account of how the party of exposure successfully opened American public life to matters that had once been hidden away in private, and studies the unexpected consequences of that victory. And she retrieves a way of thinking, wrongly discredited as Victorian, that could in fact move us beyond our stalemates over what should and what should not be said or done in public. Once, Americans influenced by the party of reticence held that if personal matters were exposed to public scrutiny they risked becoming trivial or obscene; they thought that any indiscriminate display of private matters deformed standards of taste and judgment, lowered the tone of public conversation, and polluted public space. Ms. Gurstein's penetrating analysis suggests that we must reconsider these positions, and she establishes the vital connection between our legal-cultural history and current debates about obscenity, privacy, and issues of public decency.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Includes dust jacket. Dust jacket shows minor shelf wear. Pages are underlined and annotated by previous owner.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Octavo. Condition: inked markings & underlining; else very good in fine DJ. Pages: ix, 357.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. With very good dust jacket. Very Good hardcover with light shelfwear - NICE! Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. First Edition. First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Hill & Wang Pub, 1996. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new, with some shelf/edgewear.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Like New. First Hardcover Edition. Publisher: Hill and Wang, 1996.FINE hardcover book in FINE dust-jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Remainder marked, otherwise as new. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves.…

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. 1st Edition. 357 pp. Clean, fresh copy and dj with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Leslie Goldman (Jacket Design); Odlinon Redon (Jacket Art); Jack Barth (Author Photo) (illustrator).

First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 357 pages; Description: ix, 357 p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-345) and index. Subjects: Freedom of speech --United States. Sexual freedom --United States. Obscenity (Law) --United States. Privacy, Right of --United States 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition. New!!! Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. ISBN: 0809080699. ISBN/EAN: 9780809080694. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1561048820.

First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 357 pages; Description: ix, 357 p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-345) and index. Subjects: Freedom of speech --United States. Sexual freedom --United States. Obscenity (Law) --United States. Privacy, Right of --United States 1 Kg.…

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