Modern Power and Free Speech - Contemporary Culture and Issues of Equality

Informationen zum Autor Chris Demaske is associate professor in the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program at the University of Washington Tacoma. Klappentext Modern Power and Free Speech takes a socio-political approach to question the application of the First Amendment in cases dealing with the speech rights of disempowered groups. Combining legal analysis! First Amendment theory! feminist theory! and political theory! Chris Demaske addresses the inadequacies of current free-speech doctrine. Zusammenfassung Modern Power and Free Speech takes a socio-political approach to question the application of the First Amendment in cases dealing with the speech rights of disempowered groups. Combining legal analysis! First Amendment theory! feminist theory! and political theory! Chris Demaske addresses the inadequacies of current free-speech doctrine. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Table of Contents Chapter 2 Introduction: A Critical Approach to Free Speech Chapter 3 1. Theories of the First Amendment Chapter 4 2. Liberalism and the Legal History of Free Speech Chapter 5 3. Agency and the Evolution of First Amendment Analysis Chapter 6 4. Rethinking Hate Speech: Skokie and R.A.V. Chapter 7 5. Virginia v. Black: An Evolution in First Amendment Doctrine? Chapter 8 6. The Internet: (Re)Assessing the Pornography Question Chapter 9 7. Terrorism and the Culture of Fear Chapter 10 Conclusion: A New First Amendment Emerges 11 Appendix 12 Bibliography 13 Index

Product details

• Authors: Chris Demaske, Demaske Chris
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.11.2008
• EAN: 9780739127834
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-2783-4
• No. of pages: 227
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, United States of America, USA, Human rights, civil rights, Freedom Of Information & Freedom Of Speech, Media and Politics