Not in Front of the Children: Indecency, Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth - Softcover

Heins, Marjorie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809073994 ISBN 13: 9780809073993

Verlag: Hill & Wang Pub, 2002

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The first comprehensive history of the debate about censorship designed to protect children and winner of the ALA's 2002 Eli Oboler Award for best-published work in the area of intellectual freedom From Huckleberry Finn to Harry Potter, Internet filters to the V-chip, censorship is often based on the assumption that children and adolescents must be protected from "indecent" information that might harm their development -- whether in art, in literature, or on a Web site. But where does this assumption come from, and is it true? In Not in Front of the Children , a pathbreaking history of "indecency" laws and other restrictions aimed at protecting youth, Marjorie Heins suggests that the "harm-to-minors" argument rests on shaky foundations.

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Marjorie Heins is the Director of the Free Expression Policy Project, National Coalition Against Censorship. She is the author, most recently, of Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy: A Guide to America's Censorship Wars. She lives in New York City.

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• Verlag: Hill & Wang Pub
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0809073994
• ISBN 13: 9780809073993
• Einband: Taschenbuch
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