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@$#*%! Our most taboo word and how the law keeps it forbidden. Publishers Weekly In a spirited expansion on his law review article, "Fuck," Ohio State Univ. law professor Fairman explores the origin and the affect of perhaps the most notorious word in the English language. Fairman begins with a catalog and limited history of the word, including usages sexual and non-sexual. In tracking down the word's origins-largely unknown-and the abundance of court cases involving it, Fairman highlights the long struggle of conservative forces to expel that word, and other forms of speech, from American society, in direct opposition to the first amendment. Fairman also addresses the downfalls inherent to the amendment, including the exception for speech used to incite violence, and the myriad of punishments used, at state and national levels, to deal with those exceptions. Drawing from a vast selection of historical documentation, Fairman also explores the nature of taboo and related trivia, such as the word's usage across gender lines. Austere and informative, Fairman's social history is uncompromising in its vigilant defense of first amendment rights, both in spite of his subject's potential for offense, and because of it. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Contents Prologue....................viiChapter One: Why Fuck?....................1Chapter Two: Ubiquitous Fuck....................13Chapter Three: The Power of Taboo....................25Chapter Four: Fuck Etymology....................33Chapter Five: Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Taboo....................43Chapter Six: Fuck Fetish....................55Chapter Seven: Fuck Jurisprudence....................69Chapter Eight: Them's Fighting Words!....................81Chapter Nine: Obscenity-They Know It When They See It....................93Chapter Ten: "Fuck the Draft": Offensive and Vulgar Speech....................105Chapter Eleven: Pacifica, a Pig in the Parlor, and Powell....................115Chapter Twelve: Profanity, Private Ryan, and a Prada Purse....................127Chapter Thirteen: Genderspeak and the Workplace....................149Chapter Fourteen: Tinker's Armband, But Not Cohen's Coat....................159Chapter Fifteen: Fuck in Teacher Speech....................173Chapter Sixteen: Fuck Forever....................185Acknowledgments....................193Endnotes....................199Index....................245About the Author....................249
