Catharine R. Stimpson, University Professor, Rutgers University
With great courage and skill, Marjorie Heins has kept the First Amendment and cultural freedom alive in America today. Her book shows why she deserves a major chapter when the next history of the First Amendment gets written.
From The WomanSource Catalog & Review: Tools for Connecting the Community for Women; review by Ilene Rosoff
Censorship has been perpetrated in the name of religion and morality (blasphemy and book banning), in the name of decency (public nudity and obscenity), and in the name of protecting women (pornography). Artistic expression has been one of its primary casualties, and so has attention to the real social issues that lead to breakdowns in our society. Delving into a variety of instances of censorship, Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy discloses the ultimate casualty of censorship: freedom, especially for marginalized groups like women and minorities. It is rich with examples that are both chilling and pointed. This is an excellent resource for enabling all of us to reexamine our own knee-jerk responses to censorship, and to ask ourselves where the real danger lies and what we stand to lose.
