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Reel “Rape Speech”: Violent Pornography and the Politics of Harm

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Edward Donnerstein, Daniel Linz, and Stephen Penrod, The Question of Pornography: Research Findings and Policy Implications. New York: Free Press, 1987. xiv + 274 pp. Notes, bibliography, appendix, index. $24.95.
Gordon Hawkins and Franklin E. Zimring, Pornography in a Free Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xiii + 236 pp. Bibliography, index. $24.95.
Donald A. Downs, The New Politics of Pornography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. xxiv + 266 pp. Notes, index. $42.00.

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Law & Society Review , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , 1991 , pp. 177 - 214
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Copyright © 1991 by The Law and Society Association

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