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Glossy strength and loose Speech explores the advanced courting among the 1st modification and culturally disempowered and teams in the usa. by means of targeting hate speech, net pornography, and political dissent, Chris Demaske analyzes First modification discourse and doctrine and questions the function of the concept that of the self reliant person. Demaske asserts that the presupposed equality of so-called "autonomous participants" doesn't exist and is going directly to express how those specious claims to equality in simple terms serve to additional silence these marginalized contributors of yankee society.Combining felony research, First modification idea, feminist concept, and political idea, Chris Demaske addresses the inadequacies of present free-speech doctrine and offers a potential method to therapy them.
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97. STROSSEN, supra note 80, at 31. 98. CHAMALLAS, supra note 90, at 39. 99. S. 484 (1974). 28 Chapter One 100. CAROL GILLIGAN, IN A DIFFERENT VOICE: PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY AND WOMEN’S DEVELOPMENT (1982). 101. Id. at 25–26. 102. CHAMALLAS, supra note 90, at 57. 103. For example, women are fundamentally different from men in their ability to give birth. This can be seen as a positive difference for women in that it allows them to be more nurturing and more connected to others. It can also be seen as negative because it can make them more vulnerable physically during pregnancy and more dependent on others both during and after pregnancy.
77. The one exception to this treatment of speech has been broadcast regulation. In broadcast, however, the government regulates not because they don’t trust the autonomous individual to make choices about society but because they don’t trust the government, which controls the broadcast frequencies, to make those choices. 78. See, for example, ROBERTO UNGER, DEMOCRACY REALIZED: THE PROGRESSIVE ALTERNATIVE (1998). 79. See, for example, DERRICK BELL, AND WE ARE NOT SAVED: THE ELUSIVE QUEST FOR RACIAL JUSTICE (1987); Richard Delgado, Words That Wound: A Tort Action for Racial Insults, Epithets, and Name-Calling, 17 HARV.
See, for example, ROBERTO UNGER, DEMOCRACY REALIZED: THE PROGRESSIVE ALTERNATIVE (1998). 79. See, for example, DERRICK BELL, AND WE ARE NOT SAVED: THE ELUSIVE QUEST FOR RACIAL JUSTICE (1987); Richard Delgado, Words That Wound: A Tort Action for Racial Insults, Epithets, and Name-Calling, 17 HARV. L. L. REV. J. 431 (1990); Mari Matsuda, Public Response to Racist Speech: Considering the Victim’s Story, 87 MICH. L. REV. 2320 (1989). 80. CATHARINE MACKINNON, FEMINISM UNMODIFIED: DISCOURSES ON LIFE AND LAW (1987); CATHARINE MACKINNON, ONLY WORDS (1993); NADINE STROSSEN, DEFENDING PORNOGRAPHY: FREE SPEECH, SEX, AND THE FIGHT FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS (1995); Robin West, Jurisprudence and Gender 201, in FEMINIST LEGAL THEORY: READINGS IN LAW AND GENDER (Katharine T.