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Informationen zum Autor Professor of Law, Political Science, and Women's Studies at Rutgers University Klappentext This vibrant collection expands the parameters of the feminist debate on pornography. In an effort to move away from the divisive frameworks in feminist disputes over pornography! this volume seeks to understand what pornography means to those who consume it! fight against it! and work withinit. By opening up a space for divergent points of view to address the complexity of sexual material! this book seeks to forge solidarity among academics! activists! and sex workers from diverse social and political contexts. Feminism and Pornography explores a wide range of contentious issues! including 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; and how sexually explicit literature! videos! art! and music canpromote sexual freedom. Contributors include such influential writers as Alice Walker! Audre Lorde! bell hooks! Catherine MacKinnon! and Andrea Dworkin. Zusammenfassung This collection of essays seeks to expand the parameters of the debate on pornography. In an effort to move away from a divisive framework, the book explores what pornography means to those who consume it, fight against it, work within it, and to those engaged in changing its meaning. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Anti-Pornography Feminism Against the Male Flood: Censorship, Pornography and Equality Pornography and Grief Pornography and Rape: A Causal Model Defamation and Discrimination Pornography: An Exchange-Comment/Reply The Roar on the other Side of Silence Suffering and Speech Questioning Moralism Not a Moral issue The Mirror of Pornography The Obscenity Prosecution of 2 Live Crew On the Question of Pornography and Sexual Violence: Moving Beyond Cause and Effect The Politics of Postmodern Feminism: lessons from the Anti-Porn Campaign It's Merely Designed for Sexual Arousal: Interrogating the Indefensibility of Lesbian Smut Avoiding Constitutional Depression: Bad Attitudes and the Fate of Butler On Prostitution: Two Broadsheets and a Statement A Historical and Cultural Analysis of Sexuality, Imperialism and Modernity Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity, 1500-1800 The Colonial Harem: Images of a Suberoticism Erotic Autonomy as a Politics of Decolonization: An Anatomy of Feminist and State Practice in the Bahamas Tourist Industry Looking for Women's Rights in the Rainbow: Pornography, Censorship and the 'New' South Africa We are Women Too: Prostitution After the Cuban Revolution Breaking Open the Ground of Sex and Gender Seducing Women into a 'Lifestyle and Vaginal Fisting': Lesbian Sex Gets Virtually Dangerous Just Looking for Trouble: Robert Maplethorpe and Fantasies About Race Good Girls look the Other Way The Force of Fantasy: Feminism, Maplethorpe and Discursive Excess Love Me, Master, Love Me, Son Erotic Hope, Feminine Sexuality and the Beginnings of Sexual Freedom Polemical Preface: Pornography in the Service of Women Porn in the USA Pornography's Temptation Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power Lovers and Workers: Screening the Body in Post-Communist Hungarian Cinema What We're Rolling Around in Bed With Porn Little Hungarian Pornography El Salvador, Mission Statement Prostitution in Latin America and the Caribbean From Research to Action Editing Pornography Index ...
