124th Annual Meeting (January 7-10, 2010): Prurient Politics: Sexuality and Obscenity in the Twentieth-Century United States

Prurient Politics: Sexuality and Obscenity in the Twentieth-Century United States

AHA Session 64

Friday, January 8, 2010: 9:30 AM-11:30 AM

Manchester Ballroom E (Hyatt)

Chair:

Andrea Friedman, Washington University in St. Louis

Papers:

The Politics of Sexual Looking: Pin-up Girls, Male Voyeurs, and the Problem of Eroticized Citizenship during World War II
Sarah Lindsley, Univeristy of Washington

The New Censors: Protecting Speakers and Consumers from the Private Sector in the 1940s–50s
Leigh Ann Wheeler, Binghamton University (State University of New York)

"The Report That Shocked the Nation" and Its Obscene Implications: The 1970 Presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornography Report and the New Conservative Sexual Politics
Whitney Strub, Temple University

Comment:

John A. D'Emilio, University of Illinois at Chicago

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