- Paperback: 688 pages
- Publisher: Oxford University Press (Jan 1 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0198782500
- ISBN-13: 978-0198782506
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 13.7 x 3.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 816 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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- #87 in Books > Nonfiction > Social Sciences > Pornography
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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.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Great for a survey course or just getting started...,
By Michelle (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Feminism and Pornography (Paperback)
This was the textbook for a graduate course, "Issues Surrounding Pornography" at my university. I found it to be a thorough, multi-faceted exploration of the adult industry, feminist theory (both anti-porn and anti-censorship) and the wide range of opinions and thinking on this hot-button issue. This book also includes writings on the politics of sex work. Were I the editor, I would have included Laura Mulvey and I would have included more writings about sex workers lives from the point of view of the sex worker herself/himself, as well as more pro-sex work writings. The book seems to have mainly anti-sex work writings. I would have balanced it out more. This is easily corrected by a savvy professor who can assign extra readings from a book such as "Global Sex Workers" or "Whores and Other Feminists." Overall, it's a excellent resource, one I refer to again and again as I write on the subject.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A great collection about feminist views on porn.,
By Mike Walker (Savannah, GA, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Feminism and Pornography (Paperback)
This is the best collection of its kind, and perhaps the only one to deal directly with the issue of pornography from a feminist view-point. Sure, some of the same issues and perhaps even the same essays can be found in other feminist studies anthologies, but this 600 page book has everything written to date of importance on the subject in one neat package. Drucilla Cornell is a great writer, and its good to see an inclusion of Catharine MacKinnon-who started the whole idea of feminist inquiry into porn-in her anthology, despite epistemological differences between MacKinnon and Cornell (see Cornell's book Transformations for more about that).
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nuanced and interesting!,
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This review is from: Feminism and Pornography (Paperback)
feminism and pornography is a collection of nuanced and complicated essays about pornography. this collection moves away from the pro/anti discussion about pornography and theorizies about pornography in more complicated and more interesting ways. the collection includes essays from a multitude of perspectives giving the reader an opportunity to witness the variety of feminist views on pornography. my only wish is that cornell had included more narratives, more voices of sex workers. (she does include a piece by candida royalle.) highlights include: bell hooks, audre lorde, isabelle barker's essay "editing pornography," and an excerpt from drucilla cornell's book the imaginary domain.
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