| Description |
xii, 224 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-215) and index. |
| Contents |
Words that wound : how racist hate speech harms the victim. Law's earliest responses -- Pornography and harm to women : how even social scientists have sometimes failed to see the need for relief -- First Amendment formalism is giving way to First Amendment legal realism -- Campus anti-racism rules : constitutional narratives in collision, or, why there are always two ways of looking at a speech controversy -- Images of the outsider : why the First Amendment marketplace cannot remedy systemic social ills. Social science and narrative theory are questioning faith in the freemarket of ideas -- Paternalistic arguments against hate-speech rules : pressure valves and bloodied chickens. The liberals' response to the crumbling of certainty -- The toughlove school : neoconservative arguments against hate- speech regulation. ("I just let it roll off my back") -- "But America wouldn't be America anymore" : the experience of other countries shows that adopting hate-speech rules would not cause the skies to fall; America would be even more american -- Hateful speech, loving communities : why judges are sometimes slower than others at seeing the need for reform -- "The speech we hate" : the romantic appeal of First Amendment absolutism. Does defending Nazis really strengthen the system of free speech? |
| Subject |
Freedom of speech.
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Hate speech.
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Pornography -- Law and legislation.
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| Added Author |
Stefancic, Jean.
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| ISBN |
0814718582 (alk. paper) |
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