Ishani Maitra is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, Newark and New Brunswick. She received her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She works in philosophy of language, feminist philosophy, and philosophy of law.Mary Kate McGowan is Professor of Philosophy at Wellesley College. She received her PhD from Princeton. She works in metaphysics, philosophy of language, feminism, and philosophy of law.

The speech-act turn in free speech theory is best understood, therefore, not merely as being about pornography, or about hate speech more generally, but as a new way of thinking about speech, its value, and its dangers. . . . it is an important new direction, and one that is both consolidated and taken a step further in much that is contained in this important collection.

• Contents ; Foreword ; 1. Introduction and Overview ; 2. Freedom of Expression and Human Rights Law: The Case of Holocaust Denial ; 3. 'Speaking Back': The Likely Fate of Hate Speech Policy in the United States and Australia ; 4. Subordinating Speech ; 5. On 'Whites Only' Signs and Racist Hate Speech: Verbal Acts of Racial Discrimination ; 6. Beyond Belief: Pragmatics in Hate Speech and Pornography ; 7. Power in Public: Reactions, Responses and Resistance to Offensive Public Speech ; 8. Genocidal Language Games ; 9. Words that Silence? Freedom of Expression and Racist Hate Speech ; Index

Ishani Maitra is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, Newark and New Brunswick. She received her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She works in philosophy of language, feminist philosophy, and philosophy of law.Mary Kate McGowan is Professor of Philosophy at Wellesley College. She received her PhD from Princeton. She works in metaphysics, philosophy of language, feminism, and philosophy of law.

The speech-act turn in free speech theory is best understood, therefore, not merely as being about pornography, or about hate speech more generally, but as a new way of thinking about speech, its value, and its dangers. . . . it is an important new direction, and one that is both consolidated and taken a step further in much that is contained in this important collection.

• Contents ; Foreword ; 1. Introduction and Overview ; 2. Freedom of Expression and Human Rights Law: The Case of Holocaust Denial ; 3. 'Speaking Back': The Likely Fate of Hate Speech Policy in the United States and Australia ; 4. Subordinating Speech ; 5. On 'Whites Only' Signs and Racist Hate Speech: Verbal Acts of Racial Discrimination ; 6. Beyond Belief: Pragmatics in Hate Speech and Pornography ; 7. Power in Public: Reactions, Responses and Resistance to Offensive Public Speech ; 8. Genocidal Language Games ; 9. Words that Silence? Freedom of Expression and Racist Hate Speech ; Index

Ishani Maitra is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, Newark and New Brunswick. She received her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She works in philosophy of language, feminist philosophy, and philosophy of law.Mary Kate McGowan is Professor of Philosophy at Wellesley College. She received her PhD from Princeton. She works in metaphysics, philosophy of language, feminism, and philosophy of law.

The speech-act turn in free speech theory is best understood, therefore, not merely as being about pornography, or about hate speech more generally, but as a new way of thinking about speech, its value, and its dangers. . . . it is an important new direction, and one that is both consolidated and taken a step further in much that is contained in this important collection.

• Contents ; Foreword ; 1. Introduction and Overview ; 2. Freedom of Expression and Human Rights Law: The Case of Holocaust Denial ; 3. 'Speaking Back': The Likely Fate of Hate Speech Policy in the United States and Australia ; 4. Subordinating Speech ; 5. On 'Whites Only' Signs and Racist Hate Speech: Verbal Acts of Racial Discrimination ; 6. Beyond Belief: Pragmatics in Hate Speech and Pornography ; 7. Power in Public: Reactions, Responses and Resistance to Offensive Public Speech ; 8. Genocidal Language Games ; 9. Words that Silence? Freedom of Expression and Racist Hate Speech ; Index