Pornography The Politics of Legal Challenges

Max Waltman is a researcher at Stockholm University who has published on the politics of legal challenges to prostitution, sex trafficking, and pornography, including its association with gender-based violence and sex inequality. His scholarly work is comparative, centering on Canada, Sweden, the United States, and international law. It appears in Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, Political Research Quarterly, Michigan Journal of International Law, Women's Studies International Forum, Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice, and Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society, as well as in other publications. His op-eds have been published in the New York Times, Toronto Star, in Swedish newspapers, and various online news sites. Legislative bodies domestically and abroad have consulted him, and he works on policy initiatives with prostitution survivors and feminist groups. Waltman was previously a visiting researcher and fellow at Harvard University and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has received post-doctoral research funds from the Wenner-Gren Foundations in Sweden and was awarded the Sweden-America Foundation's Prince Bertil fellowship in 2016.

Preface
Introduction

Part I: Harms and Challenges to Democracy
Chapter 1. Supply, Demand, and Production Harms
Chapter 2. Harm Caused by Consumers
Chapter 3. Democracy and Hierarchy

Part II: The United States
Chapter 4. The Antipornography Civil Rights Ordinances 1983-1991
Chapter 5. Federal Responses 1984-2014

Part III: Canada
Chapter 6. Legislative Attempts 1983-1988
Chapter 7. Judicial Challenges 1982-2019

Part IV: Sweden
Chapter 8. Challenging Production 1993-2005
Chapter 9. Substantive Equality Prostitution Law 1999-2019
Conclusions