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Pornography: An Uncivil Liberty?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Alisa L. Carse
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Abstract

Pornographic speech harms women by playing a key role in sustaining the social conditions through which women's liberty and equality are undercut. Though there is a principled moral and constitutional basis for pursuing a legal strategy in fighting pornography, we should not overestimate the effectiveness of the law or underestimate its potential dangers. The struggle against pornography must be waged through education, expressive exploration, and protest, not through the law.

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Hypatia , Volume 10 , Issue 1: Special Issue: Feminist Ethics and Social Policy, Part 1 , Winter 1995, pp. 155 - 182
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Copyright © 1995 by Hypatia, Inc.

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