Sorry, there was a problem saving your cookie preferences. �2�c� � [Content_Types].xml �(� ĕ�j�0E����Ѷ�J�(��ɢ�eh��4�MeIH���w;���&��=s�=#f�5)&��Vf����k�����(����� ����f�MHY��92�R��:0Tɬ/ҫ_r'�X �\Z�`0�ʃM�ϐ����eK�k���R&�ӅHe^U�Q�N�F���������.�5 �t4�P̈́�7Q��X���rURDr�H�ͲBB��ܜ�B�3/u�VJQ�N��; ���ow< ���ƹa���(~�w�d֢���m�֝`TO�N��?�>Am|�=��_��?��|� }4֝H� ���7��9I�3o]����0�aT�v�8����d}�|P�/�H6����7 �� PK ! Kenneth . Please try again. We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your shopping experience, to provide our services, understand how customers use our services so we can make improvements, and display ads. Please try your request again later. Andrea Friedman is assistant professor of history and women's studies at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Born in 1905 in South Carolina, the daughter of tenant farmers, Moss worked as a domestic servant, laundress, and tobacco stemmer, before moving to Washington and gaining a job in a government cafeteria. While literature abounds on the contemporary politics of obscenity, there has been little inquiry into the historic origins of these issues. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Approved third parties also use these tools in connection with our display of ads. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Copyright 2020 by:Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, Associate Professor of History and South Asian Studies, Director of Undergraduate Studies in History, Associate Professor of History and of African and African-American Studies, Professor of History, African and African-American Studies, and American Culture Studies, ​Associate Professor of History and Law (by courtesy), Stella K. 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As Prurient Interests vividly illustrates, many of the elemental arguments that censorship advocates still employ today were first delineated in this period: the capacity of certain forms of entertainment to encourage violence against women, to corrupt the minds of young audiences, and to spread homosexuality. St. Louis, MO 63130. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. The intrictae tapestry of social, sexual, political, moral, economic, and myriad other variables that in no small way comprise the censorship quandaries of our own time is greatly illuminated as a result of Friedman's scholarship.--Theater Journal, -- Leigh Ann Wheeler, Journal of American History. Focusing on New York City in the first half of the twentieth century, Andrea Friedman's Prurient Interests considers the ways in which the evolution of obscenity debates in decades past has significantly affected today's controversies. Buy Prurient Interests: Gender, Democracy, and Obscenity in New York City, 1909-1945 (Columbia Studies in Contemporary American History) by Andrea Friedman (ISBN: 9780231110679) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. There's a problem loading this menu at the moment. https://jewishottawa.com/wwwjewishottawacom/about-us/management-team Executive Coordinator of Crisis & Conflict in Historical Perspective. Debate about what constitutes obscenity and how--if at all--it should be regulated has been at the center of the "culture wars" of the past two decades. Of Jewish descent, Freedman was educated at Whitley Bay Grammar School, the Victoria University of Manchester (BA), University of York (BPhil), and University of Oxford, where he was a student of Nuffield College (Fellow 1974–75) and the Faculty of Social Studies. It also analyses reviews to verify trustworthiness. Prime members enjoy fast & free shipping, unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows with Prime Video and many more exclusive benefits. Department of Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies. “This has been a very long time coming.” Andrea Friedman. Exploring motion pictures, burlesque, and Broadway theater--three forms of entertainment that were regularly condemned by anti-obscenity activists in the early 1900s--Friedman traces the creation of a modern system of obscenity regulation in New York City. Prurient Interests: Gender, Democracy, and Obscenity in New York City, 1909-1945 (Columbia Studies in Contemporary American History). A force to be reckoned with at each institution, she was also, as Andrea Friedman recalls, “the colleague who became your friend who became your family.” Shortly after arriving at Williams, Brown published Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South (2008). Kuzuoğlu. But as historian Andrea Friedman has shown, Moss was consciously playing the fool. �`��� N _rels/.rels �(� ���JA���0�ޝm�l/R�M�>@������I�}{Q�RK'�|��\�ä^��O���iAQ���8xޮgw��`t8�HT`�]_-�hB�Ee���J���(��.v���I�b�����Ag�/8�^����莘j����Am�.a�������r�ů�JFH�%v�}���}�fq��ߓ�@��ML�̵����~U��.�n�s=����y%���H]A� �� PK ! Department of History . obscenity were, wrote historian Andrea Friedman, a ‘defensive’ reaction to ‘the flood of sexual commerce’ that reformers believed ‘threatened the nation’s future.’3 2 Harry G. Levine, ‘The Discovery of Addiction: Changing Conceptions of Habitual Drunkenness in America,’ Journal of Studies on Alcohol 39 (1978): 143-174. Knapp Teaching Professor and Minor Adviser in History. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. “Women have been running for president since before they had the right to vote,” said Andrea Friedman, professor of history and of women, gender, and sexuality studies in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. Assistant Professor of History. Friedman's innovative study enriches our understanding of the obscenity debates still raging at the close of the millennium. Something went wrong. 1-Click ordering is not available for this item. Ludmerer. Gloria M. Goldstein Professor of Jewish History and Thought, Professor of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies. Friedman also shows how the rise of the concept of "democratic moral authority"--the idea that obscenity should be regulated according to the standards of the "average person" and that the mechanisms of regulation should themselves be controlled by the people--displaced middle-class women as anti-obscenity crusaders.

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