Problem of Pornography

Susan Easton is a barrister and Lecturer in Law at Brunel University, London. She has written on Hegel and feminism and is the author of The Right to Silence, Disorder and Discipline and Humanist Marxism and Wittgensteinian Social Philosophy. She is Editor of the International Journal of Discrimination and the Law.

• Chapter 1 The liberal defence of pornography; Chapter 2 The types of harm; Chapter 3 Proving harm; Chapter 4 Diversity and autonomy; Chapter 5 Feminism, truth and infallibility; Chapter 6 Free speech and majoritarianism; Chapter 7 The slippery slope; Chapter 8 Feminism and puritanism; Chapter 9 The protection of free speech; Chapter 10 Interpreting the First Amendment; Chapter 11 The civil rights Ordinances; Chapter 12 Freedom of speech and the regulation of pornography in English law; Chapter 13 The ‘right’ to consume pornography; Chapter 14 Incitement to sexual hatred; Chapter 15 Conclusion;

`It provides a forceful account of the feminist case for restriction...' - John Horton, Keele University