Why Internet Porn Matters (Stanford Briefs) - Softcover

Grebowicz, Margret

 
9780804786621: Why Internet Porn Matters (Stanford Briefs)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0804786623 ISBN 13: 9780804786621
Verlag: Stanford University Press, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

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-François 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."

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Margret Grebowicz is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Goucher College.

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Verlag
Stanford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0804786623
ISBN 13 
9780804786621
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
152
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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