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Eric Berkowitz is a Los Angeles-based writer, lawyer, and journalist. His previous books include Sex and Punishment and The Boundaries of Desire, and his writing has appeared in periodicals such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Economist, and others.

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Date de naissance
c. 1960
Sexe
male
Nationalité
USA
Lieux de résidence
San Francisco, California, USA

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Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss.
 
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fernandie | 1 autre critique | Sep 15, 2022 |
When I first picked up this book, I almost didn't make it to the end of the introduction because I found its take on early 21st century discourse on consent so offputting. The rest of the book worked better for me, but covering four thousand years and large areas of the Christian west means themes are covered in a rather shallow way. On the whole, this was a book worth reading even if took me a long time to finish it.
 
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mari_reads | 6 autres critiques | Apr 14, 2022 |
This is an exceptional book, covering the history of censorship from ancient times to our modern ones.

While his focus is on the West, it is easy enough to draw lessons to our own countries.

Suffice it to say that what is happening is scary. What makes it scary, is that we are willing sheep, allowing our minds to be manipulated. A brilliant book.

Essential for our times.
 
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RajivC | 1 autre critique | Aug 25, 2021 |
This probably isn't the best book I will read on this topic, it's too bitty and comes to no real conclusion (as if he was going to write a 20th century chapter and a conclusion but decided to end where he was at with the end of the Victorian era) this looks at how for 4000 years humanity has tried to regulate relationships between consenting adults, and non-consenting and what that has meant over the years as well, and mostly they've mucked it up, causing more trouble than they were trying to fix. There is a fine line between trying to keep people from being exploited (i.e. child abuse, rape etc) and trying to regulate everything someone does publicly and privately.

It's an interesting romp through many centuries of abuse of power and I found it an interesting read, but I was left wanting more. If this was on TV I'd be arguing with it
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Œuvres
3
Membres
337
Popularité
#70,620
Évaluation
½ 3.6
Critiques
9
ISBN
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