The regulation of sex-themed visual imagery : from clay tablets to tablet computers / Lyombe Eko.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eko, Lyombe, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Erotica--Censorship--History.

Erotica.

Pornography--Government policy--History.

Pornography.

Sex and law--History.

Sex and law.

Erotica--Censorship.

Pornography--Government policy.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Contents:

1 Sex-Themed visual Imagery as Regulated Representations: From the Euphrates Valley to Silicon Valley 1

Part I Theoretical and Historical Approaches 21

2 Theoretical Approaches: Explicit Visual Sexual Imagery as Rule-Based Re-presentations 23

3 Explicit, Sex-Themed visual Imagery as Rule-Based Representations in the Ancient World: Babylon, Assyria, Egypt, and Ethiopia 35

4 The Origins of Pornography: The Heterogeneous, Sex-Themed Art of Ancient Greece 51

5 Explicit, Sex-Themed visual Imagery as Regulated Representations in China and Japan 63

6 Regulation of Sex-Themed Visual Imagery in India: From Entwinement of the Sacred and the Sensual to Emphasis on Karma 77

7 Clash of Civilizations: Deterritorialization of Judeo-Christian "Legislative Texts" to the Greco-Roman Empire 87

8 Explicit Visual Sexual Imagery as regulated Representations during the Roman Empire, the Renaissance, and the Enlightenment 105

9 Regulation of Sex-Themed Visual Imagery in the Muslim World: The Persian, Mughal, and Ottoman Empires 131

Part II Regulation of Sex-Themed Visual Imagery: Continuity, Change, and the Legal Turn 153

10 Regulation of Explicit Visual Sexual Imagery in the United States: The Tension between Agape and Eros 155

11 Pedagogy of the Repressed: Sexual Liberation, Sexual Capitalism, and Freedom of expression in the United States 175

12 Sexual Capitalism, Organized Crime, and Explicit, Sex-Themed Visual Imagery: The Deep Throat Cases 197

13 Portrayal of Government Workers in Explicit, Sex-Themed Visual Imagery: First Amendment Issues 209

14 Explicit, Sex-Themed Visual imagery and Intellectual Property Law 219

Part III International and Comparative Approaches to the Regulation of Explicit, Sex-Themed Visual Imagery

15 Sex-Themed visual Imagery, Freedom of Expression, and Women's Rights: American and Canadian Approaches 235

16 Regulation of Online Pedopornography (Child Pornography) in the United States and France 257

17 Epilogue: Looking Back and Looking Forward: Sexting and Revenge Porn 275.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137564238

1137564237

OCLC:

934586966