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Feminism and Pornography

Edited by Drucilla Cornell

Price: £26.00 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-878250-6
Publication date: 13 April 2000
688 pages, 20 halftones, 216x138 mm
Series: Oxford Readings in Feminism
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Part of Oxford Readings in Feminism series
Interdisciplinary: of interest to students of feminism, politics, cultural studies, womens studies, and sociology as well as post-colonial and American studies
Controversial and debatable subject
International rather than Eurocentric perspective
Diverse perspectives contributions come from academics, activists, and sex workers
Contributors to the volume include well know authors such as Andrea Dworkin, Catharine MacKinnon, Candida Royalle, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, and bell hooks amongst others

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.

Contents

Introduction , Dorchen Leidholdt

Anti-Pornography Feminism

Against the Male Flood: Censorship, Pornography and Equality , Andrea Dworkin

Pornography and Grief , Andrea Dworkin

Pornography and Rape: A Causal Model , Diana Russell

Defamation and Discrimination , Catharine A. MacKinnon

Pornography: An Exchange-Comment/Reply , Ronald Dworkin and Catharine A. MacKinnon

The Roar on the other Side of Silence , Catharine A. MacKinnon

Suffering and Speech , Andrea Dworkin

Questioning Moralism

Not a Moral issue , Catharine A. MacKinnon

The Mirror of Pornography , Wendy Brown

The Obscenity Prosecution of 2 Live Crew , Kimberle Crenshaw

On the Question of Pornography and Sexual Violence: Moving Beyond Cause and Effect , Deborah Cameron and Elizabeth Frazer

The Politics of Postmodern Feminism: lessons from the Anti-Porn Campaign , Mary Jo Frug

It's Merely Designed for Sexual Arousal: Interrogating the Indefensibility of Lesbian Smut , Becki Ross

Avoiding Constitutional Depression: Bad Attitudes and the Fate of Butler , Anne Scales

On Prostitution: Two Broadsheets and a Statement , Italian Manifesto

A Historical and Cultural Analysis of Sexuality, Imperialism and Modernity

Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity, 1500-1800 , Lynn Hunt

The Colonial Harem: Images of a Suberoticism , Malek Alloula

Erotic Autonomy as a Politics of Decolonization: An Anatomy of Feminist and State Practice in the Bahamas Tourist Industry , Jacqui Alexander

Looking for Women's Rights in the Rainbow: Pornography, Censorship and the 'New' South Africa , Lliane Loots

We are Women Too: Prostitution After the Cuban Revolution , Victoria Ortiz

Breaking Open the Ground of Sex and Gender

Seducing Women into a 'Lifestyle and Vaginal Fisting': Lesbian Sex Gets Virtually Dangerous , Amber Hollibaugh

Just Looking for Trouble: Robert Maplethorpe and Fantasies About Race , Kobena Mercer

Good Girls look the Other Way , Bell Hooks

The Force of Fantasy: Feminism, Maplethorpe and Discursive Excess , Judith Butler

Love Me, Master, Love Me, Son , Rey Chow

Erotic Hope, Feminine Sexuality and the Beginnings of Sexual Freedom

Polemical Preface: Pornography in the Service of Women , Angela Carter

Porn in the USA , Candida Royalle

Pornography's Temptation , Drucilla Cornell

Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power , Audre Lorde

Lovers and Workers: Screening the Body in Post-Communist Hungarian Cinema , Catherine Portuges

What We're Rolling Around in Bed With , Amber Hollibaugh and Cherrie Moraga

Porn , Alice Walker

Little Hungarian Pornography , Peter Esterhazy

El Salvador, Mission Statement , Flora Di Peidra

Prostitution in Latin America and the Caribbean , Zooraida Ramirez Rodriguez

From Research to Action , Siriporn Skrobanek, Nattaya Boonpakdi and Chutima Janthakeero

Editing Pornography , Isabell Barker

Index

Authors, editors, and contributors

Edited by Drucilla Cornell, Professor of Law, Political Science, and Women's Studies, Rutgers University

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