Overview

Over the past twenty years debates about pornography have raged within feminism and beyond. Throughout the 1970s feminists increasingly addressed the problem of men's sexual violence against women, and many women reduced the politics of men's power to questions about sexuality. By the 1980s these questions had become more and more focused on the issue of pornography--now a metaphor for the menace of male power. Collapsing feminist politics into sexuality and sexuality into pornography has not only caused some of the deepest splits between feminists, but made it harder to think clearly about either sexuality or pornography--indeed, about feminist politics more generally.This provocative collection, by well-known feminists, surveys these arguments, and in particular asks why recent feminist debates about sexuality keep reducing to questions of pornography.

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Author:   Mary McIntosh ,  Lynne Segal
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 12.70cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 2.50cm
Weight:   0.399kg
ISBN:  

9780813519388

ISBN 10:   0813519381
Pages:   334
Publication Date:   01 February 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Feminist fundamentalism: the shifting politics of sex and censorship / Elizabeth Wilson Negotiating sex and gender in the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography / Carole S. Vance From Minneapolis to Westminster / Mandy Merck Sweet sorrows, painful pleasure: pornography and the perils of heterosexual desire / Lynne Segal Just looking for trouble: Robert Mapplethorpe and fantasies of race / Kobena Mercer Gonad the Barbarian and the Venus Flytrap: portraying the female and male orgasm / Anne McClintock Pornography and fantasy: psychoanalytic perspectives / Elizabeth Cowie Liberalism and the contradictions of sexual politics / Mary McIntosh Delightful visions: from anti-porn to eroticizing safer sex / Robin Gorna Unquestionably a moral issue: rhetorical devices and regulatory imperatives / Carol Smart Classroom conundrums: sex education and censorship / Jane Mills So long as it's not sex and violence: Andrea Dworkin's Mercy / Harriett Gilbert Pornographies on/scene, or diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks / Linda Williams Bad girls: women who use pornography / Loretta Loach. Lesbian erotic explorations / Gillian Rodgerson The female nude: pornography, art and sexuality / Lynda Nead ""A little bit spicy, but not too raw"": Mae West, pornography and popular culture / Marybeth Hamilton"

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LYNNE SEGAL teaches psychology at Middlesex Polytechnic and is a member of the Feminist Review collective. She is also the author of Slow Motion: Changing Masculinities, Changing Men (Rutgers University Press).  MARY MCINTOSH teaches sociology at the University of Essex.  Both editors are members of Feminist Against Censorship. 

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