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" Why internet porn matters / "
Margret Grebowicz.
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BL
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635472
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Grebowicz, Margret,1973-
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Why internet porn matters /\ Margret Grebowicz.
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ix, 135 pages ;; 22 cm.
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9780804786621 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 0804786623 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-135).
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| Contents
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The critical landscape of pornography -- Why speech still matters -- Democracy and the information society -- The ecstasy of community -- Privacy and pleasure -- Foreclosure and its critics -- Inhuman openings -- Pornography, norms, and sex education.
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"Now that pornography is on the Internet, its political and social functions have changed. So contends Margret Grebowicz in this imperative philosophical analysis of Internet porn. The production and consumption of Internet porn, in her account, are a symptom of the obsession with self-exposure in today's social networking media, which is, in turn, a symptom of the modern democratic construction of the governable subject as both transparent and communicative. In this first feminist critique to privilege the effects of pornography's Internet distribution rather than what it depicts, Grebowicz examines porn-sharing communities (such as the bestiality niche market) and the politics of putting women's sexual pleasure on display (the 'squirting' market) as part of the larger democratic project. Arguing against this project, she shows that sexual pleasure is not a human right. Unlikely convergences between thinkers like Catherine MacKinnon, Jean Baudrillard, Judith Butler, and Jean-Francoįs Lyotard allow her to formulate a theory of the relationships between sex, speech, and power that stands as an alternative to such cyber-libertarian mottos as 'freedom of speech' and 'sexual freedom.'" -- Publisher's description.
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Internet pornography-- Philosophy.
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Pornography-- Political aspects.
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Feminist theory.
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363.4/702854678
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HQ471.G735 2013
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