Explicit Utopias
eBook - ePub

Explicit Utopias

Rewriting the Sexual in Women's Pornography

  1. 312 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Explicit Utopias

Rewriting the Sexual in Women's Pornography

About this book

Explicit Utopias explores a problem that has long haunted feminist, lesbian, and queer critics: the obstacles to imagining women's desire and sexual agency. Pornography is one arena in which women have actively sought to imaginatively overcome this problem, yet pornography has also been an object of passionate feminist contention. Revisiting the feminist sex wars of the 1980s, Amalia Ziv offers a comprehensive and thoughtful reassessment of the arguments and concerns of both camps, tying these early debates to the contemporary surge of concern over the pornification of culture. She also sets out to rectify the lack of critical attention to marginal sexual representations by examining the feminist, queer, and psychoanalytic literature on several key issues, including fantasy, the phallus, identification, and gender performativity.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: Pornography, Subjectivity, and the Reinscription of Fantasy
  8. One: Between Sexual Commodities and Sexual Subjects: The Feminist Pornography Debate Revisited
  9. Two: The Phantasmatic Gay Man: Cross-Identification in Women’s Pornography
  10. Three: Refiguring Penetration
  11. Four: The Phallus and Its Vicissitudes
  12. Five: Sexuality beyond Gender: Gender Performativity in Lesbian Pornography
  13. Six: Female Sexual Subjectivity in a Queer World
  14. Coda: Pornographic Pedagogy, Explicit Utopias, and the Future of Female Sexual Subjectivity
  15. Notes
  16. Works Cited
  17. Index
  18. Back Cover