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Feminism and Pornography
Edited by Drucilla Cornell
688 pages
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20 halftones
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216x138mm
978-0-19-878250-6
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Paperback
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13 April 2000
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- Part of Oxford Readings in Feminism series
- Interdisciplinary: of interest to students of feminism, politics, cultural studies, womens studies, and sociology as well as post-colonial and American studies
- Controversial and debatable subject
- International rather than Eurocentric perspective
- Diverse perspectives contributions come from academics, activists, and sex workers
- Contributors to the volume include well know authors such as Andrea Dworkin, Catharine MacKinnon, Candida Royalle, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, and bell hooks amongst others
This collection of essays seeks to expand the parameters of the debate on pornography. In an effort to move away from the divisive frameworks of which side are you on? and who counts as women worthy to be listened to? in feminist debates on pornography, this volume seeks to understand what pornography means to those who consume it, fight against it, work within it, and to those engaged in changing its meaning. By opening up a space for divergent points of view to address the complexity of sexual material, this volume seeks to forge solidarity
amongst a diverse array of constituencies, including academics, activists, and sex workers from diverse socio-political contexts. Through seeking to address the relationship between imperialism, the exotic, and the pornographic, the collection moves away from Eurocentric perspectives on pornography, by including the perspectives of women involved in struggles for national liberation in the South.
This volume explores a wide range of issues, such as, how the meaning of pornography is shaped by changing historical and political realities; the role law should play, if any, in the sex industry; whether union organizing can change the working conditions in the sex industry; kinds of representational politics available for redefining pornography; and how sexually
explicity literature, videos, art, and music can serve the purpose of sexual freedom.
Contributors to the volume include Diana Russell, Catharine MacKinnon, Andrea Dworkin, Wendy Brown, Becki Ross, Mallek Alloula, M. Jacqui Alexander, Victoria Ortiz, bell hooks, Rey Chow, Judith Butler, Candida Royalle, Zoraida Ramirez Rodriguez, amongst others.Readership: First year upward undergraduate and post-graduate students in politics, womens studies, cultural studies, media studies, and sociology as well as American and Post-colonial studies (to a lesser degree). Also for general readers interested in feminism and pornography debates.
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Edited by Drucilla Cornell, Professor of Law, Political Science, and Women's Studies, Rutgers University
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Dorchen Leidholdt: Introduction
Anti-Pornography Feminism
Andrea Dworkin: Against the Male Flood: Censorship, Pornography and Equality
Andrea Dworkin: Pornography and Grief
Diana Russell: Pornography and Rape: A Causal Model
Catharine A. MacKinnon: Defamation and Discrimination
Ronald Dworkin and Catharine A. MacKinnon: Pornography: An Exchange-Comment/Reply
Catharine A. MacKinnon: The Roar on the other Side of Silence
Andrea Dworkin: Suffering and Speech
Questioning Moralism
Catharine A. MacKinnon: Not a Moral issue
Wendy Brown: The Mirror of Pornography
Kimberle Crenshaw: The Obscenity Prosecution of 2 Live Crew
Deborah Cameron and Elizabeth Frazer: On the Question of Pornography and Sexual Violence: Moving Beyond Cause and Effect
Mary Jo Frug: The Politics of Postmodern Feminism: lessons from the Anti-Porn Campaign
Becki Ross: It's Merely Designed for Sexual Arousal: Interrogating the Indefensibility of Lesbian Smut
Anne Scales: Avoiding Constitutional Depression: Bad Attitudes and the Fate of Butler
Italian Manifesto: On Prostitution: Two Broadsheets and a Statement
A Historical and Cultural Analysis of Sexuality, Imperialism and Modernity
Lynn Hunt: Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity, 1500-1800
Malek Alloula: The Colonial Harem: Images of a Suberoticism
Jacqui Alexander: Erotic Autonomy as a Politics of Decolonization: An Anatomy of Feminist and State Practice in the Bahamas Tourist Industry
Lliane Loots: Looking for Women's Rights in the Rainbow: Pornography, Censorship and the 'New' South Africa
Victoria Ortiz: We are Women Too: Prostitution After the Cuban Revolution
Breaking Open the Ground of Sex and Gender
Amber Hollibaugh: Seducing Women into a 'Lifestyle and Vaginal Fisting': Lesbian Sex Gets Virtually Dangerous
Kobena Mercer: Just Looking for Trouble: Robert Maplethorpe and Fantasies About Race
Bell Hooks: Good Girls look the Other Way
Judith Butler: The Force of Fantasy: Feminism, Maplethorpe and Discursive Excess
Rey Chow: Love Me, Master, Love Me, Son
Erotic Hope, Feminine Sexuality and the Beginnings of Sexual Freedom
Angela Carter: Polemical Preface: Pornography in the Service of Women
Candida Royalle: Porn in the USA
Drucilla Cornell: Pornography's Temptation
Audre Lorde: Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
Catherine Portuges: Lovers and Workers: Screening the Body in Post-Communist Hungarian Cinema
Amber Hollibaugh and Cherrie Moraga: What We're Rolling Around in Bed With
Alice Walker: Porn
Peter Esterhazy: Little Hungarian Pornography
Flora Di Peidra: El Salvador, Mission Statement
Zooraida Ramirez Rodriguez: Prostitution in Latin America and the Caribbean
Siriporn Skrobanek, Nattaya Boonpakdi and Chutima Janthakeero: From Research to Action
Isabell Barker: Editing Pornography
Index
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