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Speech & Harm: Controversies Over Free Speech Edited by Ishani Maitra Mary Kate McGowan New York NY: Oxford University Press, 2012

Speech & Harm: Controversies Over Free Speech Edited by Ishani Maitra Mary Kate McGowan New York... DOI 10.1002/aps.1505 BOOK REVIEWS AND COMMENTARY Speech & Harm: Controversies Over Free Speech Edited by Ishani Maitra | Mary Kate McGowan New York NY: Oxford University Press, 2012 To put into context this review of the neatly edited collection of essays, Speech & Harm: Controversies over Free Speech, you should know that there was a time I considered Catharine MacKinnon one of the most dangerous women in America. In the early 1990s, I was executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Florida – and a free speech stalwart – while anti‐pornography crusader MacKinnon and her erstwhile partner‐in‐whine, Andrea Dworkin, were working the opposite side of the First Amendment street. As ACLU director, I defended free speech for all, even offensive speech, and still believe it is the best possible way to protect society from governmental repres- sion. MacKinnon and Dworkin fought for a giant First Amendment carve‐out for pornography and any speech that objectified women as sex objects. For two women who did not like anything dirty, they spent a great deal of time greasing the slippery slope. Over the intervening decades, MacKinnon's arguments failed to gain a legal foothold in the United States (with the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies Wiley

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DOI 10.1002/aps.1505 BOOK REVIEWS AND COMMENTARY Speech & Harm: Controversies Over Free Speech Edited by Ishani Maitra | Mary Kate McGowan New York NY: Oxford University Press, 2012 To put into context this review of the neatly edited collection of essays, Speech & Harm: Controversies over Free Speech, you should know that there was a time I considered Catharine MacKinnon one of the most dangerous women in America. In the early 1990s, I was executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Florida – and a free speech stalwart – while anti‐pornography crusader MacKinnon and her erstwhile partner‐in‐whine, Andrea Dworkin, were working the opposite side of the First Amendment street. As ACLU director, I defended free speech for all, even offensive speech, and still believe it is the best possible way to protect society from governmental repres- sion. MacKinnon and Dworkin fought for a giant First Amendment carve‐out for pornography and any speech that objectified women as sex objects. For two women who did not like anything dirty, they spent a great deal of time greasing the slippery slope. Over the intervening decades, MacKinnon's arguments failed to gain a legal foothold in the United States (with the

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