Pornographies
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Pornographies

Critical Positions

  1. English
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eBook - PDF

Pornographies

Critical Positions

About this book

Pornography is no longer considered to be a single, homogenous 'thing'. Nor are debates about pornography limited to the reductive anti-porn versus anti-censorship controversies of the mid-twentieth century. Whether we like it or not, pornography today is out in the open, from the ubiquity of porn produced and consumed via the Internet to the mainstreaming of porn aesthetics and practices into mass media and everyday life. Pornography is therefore of central concern to social scientific, arts and humanities research that focuses on sexual freedoms and oppressions, empowerment, gender, feminism and postfeminism, queer identities, normative and non-normative bodies, politics and more. This book conceives of pornographies in the plural and its twelve chapters engage directly with porn across a range of media and from a variety of critical perspectives. From the conceptual importance of pornography in the feminist 'sex wars' to porn produced for female and/or queer sexual pleasure, via examinations of vaginal performance artists, fetish clinics, sexperts, amputee porn, barebacking, tattoos and Japanese erotica, this book illuminates the many ways in which pornographies may be understood in scholarship today.

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Yes, you can access Pornographies by Katherine Harrison,Cassandra A. Ogden, Katherine Harrison, Cassandra A. Ogden in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Sociology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Half title page
  3. Issues in the Social Sciences
  4. Full title page
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Series Editor's Preface
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Contributors
  10. Introduction
  11. Politics and Ethical Conflict in a Social Movement: Pornography and the 'Sex Wars' in (Lesbian) Feminism - Christian Klesse
  12. Women's Pornography - Feona Attwood
  13. Postfeminist Sexpertise on the 'Porn and Men Issue': A Transnational Perspective - Laura Favaro
  14. Revolting Women: Performing the 'New Explicit' - Emma L. E. Rees
  15. 'Slutty & Sluttier, Starring ...':The Rise of the Postfeminist Porn Star in Contemporary Celebrity Culture - Camilla A. Sears
  16. Sexing Up Post-War Japanese Cinema: Looking at 1960s/1970s 'Pinky Violence' Films - Laura Treglia
  17. 'Slutburgers' and Sexual Subjects? The Re'Sexualisation of Women in Fast-Food Advertising and Culinary Culture - Natalie Jovanovski
  18. The Aestheticisation of the Real Body in Politics and Pornography - Tim Gregory
  19. Gay Porn, Ink - Joseph Brennan
  20. Barebacking and Historical Time - Ricky Varghese
  21. Pricked, Probed and Possessed: Medical Pornography and the Birth of the Fetish Clinic - Brenda S. Gardenour Walter
  22. "I'm Going to Stump You": Fetish, Confession and the Transformative Potential of the Erotic Crip Body - Krista K. Miranda
  23. Index
  24. Back cover