Pornographies

Critical Positions

Katherine Harrison, Cassandra A. Ogden, Katherine Harrison, Cassandra A. Ogden

• Publisher: University of Chester Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9781908258328
• eBook ISBN:
  9781908258410
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

Table of contents

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