Book Banning

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<p>I couldn’t find them either, cgm.</p>

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<p>It’s not you - I went back to the article and can’t find the link either!</p>

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<p>I am now remembering that when I was in my lyc</p>

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<p>Okay … sorry but I can’t find the lost link. I did , however, find another link to the support group that Pinney has appealed to in order to rally support at the upcoming board meeting .</p>

<p><a href=“http://culturecampaign.com/about.aspx[/url]”>http://culturecampaign.com/about.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I hope there are Jews and Muslims, Buddhists and atheists on the Board to stand firm against this Christianist (Andrew Sullivan’s term) agenda.</p>

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<p>oh that group has NO agenda what so ever</p>

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<p>Oh, geez, why am I not surprised?</p>

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<p>I just wish people would be straightforward about WHY they want to ban books…</p>

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<p>Then Tess should be required reading TODAY!</p>

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<p>Ell:</p>

<p>Of course, I was reading against the grain. Hardy took it for granted that Angel Clare was right in thinking of Tess as a fallen woman. Besides, hypertension is not good for you. So says my GP.</p>

<p>But yes, it would be good for young people to know how far we’ve travelled (or not).</p>

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<p>Absolutely agree, hypertension is not good but probably helps book sales. In the Hardy vein, what about “Jude the Obscure” - even in those days, readers waited with bated breath for the next installment in Harper’s.</p>

<p>Just to take a wee peek at how far we have come (or not) :</p>

<p><a href=“http://classiclit.about.com/cs/toppicks/tp/aatp-ban.htm[/url]”>http://classiclit.about.com/cs/toppicks/tp/aatp-ban.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>and</p>

<p><a href=“http://classiclit.about.com/od/bannedliteratur1/[/url]”>http://classiclit.about.com/od/bannedliteratur1/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Interesting note - Hardyr rewrote the bowlderized serial passages for the book version of Jude. Bowlderization, censorship and book banning are, indeed, timeless.</p>

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<p>In another thread, I wrote that Lady Chatterley’s Lover inspired the girls in my 12th grade class to focus on learning English more than any utilitarian argument could have done. . We’d been reading Dickens and Jane Austen. Of course, it was passed around surreptitiously among us.</p>

<p>When I was studying Greek, we had a bowdlerized version of Plato’s Republic. Again, ithe excised passages inspired us to learn what was in them (whiffs of homosexuality). They were more exciting to a bunch of 15, 16-years old than musings about philosopher-kings.</p>

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<p>I do not know why, but everytime I try to quickly type “bowdlerize” it comes out wrong - even though Bowdler is not that hard a name! </p>

<p>The school board meeting to debate the book banning was held yesterday so it will be interesting to follow the fall out. Pinney also appealed to other groups to rally round :</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.illinoisfamily.org/news/contentview.asp?c=32854[/url]”>http://www.illinoisfamily.org/news/contentview.asp?c=32854&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>and</p>

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<p>School Board Averts Book Ban</p>

<p>Well, like American Idol, there was a huge turnout but no surprises.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/custom/newsroom/chi-060526book-ban,0,2354920.story?coll=chi-newsroomoverline-411[/url]”>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/custom/newsroom/chi-060526book-ban,0,2354920.story?coll=chi-newsroomoverline-411&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Asteriskea:</p>

<p>Thanks for the update. I’m glad that the board and the community-including the students-- showed good sense.</p>

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<p>On the subject of censorship and book banning - this is a lovely site and the essay “The Bonfires of Liberties: Censorship and the Humanities” is worth the read.</p>

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<p>Also worth the read:</p>

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<p>This q&a page from the American Library Association site addresses basic issues connected to censorship and intellectual freedom:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/basics/intellectual.htm[/url]”>http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/basics/intellectual.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>And you don’t even have to go very far back in time…at least in the law business. Sandra Day O’Connor couldn’t get a job with a premier LA law firm after law school unless it was as a secretary (1950s). The first female associates in big-time NY law firms weren’t hired until the early 70s. When I tell current female law school students (many law schools are now over 50% female), they don’t believe me!</p>

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<p>I suppose we just have to thank the Leslie Pinney’s of the world who make us stop for a bit and remember just how far we have come - or not. In any case, Pinney’s attempt at book banning drew a record number of concerned citizens eager to participate in the debate over the issue of high school censorship. The crowd at the school board meeting was estimated to be between 600 and 1000.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.dailyherald.com/story.asp?id=192761[/url]”>http://www.dailyherald.com/story.asp?id=192761&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>and </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-bookban26.html[/url]”>http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-bookban26.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Leslie Pinney isn’t the first and won’t be the last to try to censor high school book reading lists. Attempts to ban books obviously strike a deep nerve - like this one held in Kansas (2003) - when a special school board meeting had to be convened to debate high school censorship – a meeting that just happened to coincide with Banned Book Week celebrating “Open books for Open Minds”. </p>

<p><a href=“http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2003/sep/14/book_ban_ignites/[/url]”>http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2003/sep/14/book_ban_ignites/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;