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The Sexualized Body and the Medical Authority of Pornography - Performing Sexual Liberation (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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The Sexualized Body and the Medical Authority of Pornography - Performing Sexual Liberation (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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This edited collection examines pornography as a material practice
that eroticises gender inequality and sexual violence towards
women. It addresses the complex relationship between pornography
and medicine (in particular, sexology and psycho-therapy) whereby
medicine has historically, and currently, afforded pornography
considerable legitimacy and even authority. Pornography naturalises
women's submission and men's dominance as if gendered power is
rooted in biology not politics. In contrast to the populist view
that medicine is objective and rational, the contributors here
demonstrate that medicine has been complicit with the construction
of gender difference, and in that construction the relationship
with pornography is not incidental but fundamental.A range of
theoretical approaches critically engages with this topic in the
light, firstly, of radical feminist ideas about patriarchy and the
politics of gender, and, secondly, of the rapidly changing
conditions of global capitalism and digital-technologies. In its
broad approach, the book also engages with the ideas of Michel
Foucault, particularly his refutation of the liberal hypothesis
that sexuality is a deep biological and psychological human
property which is repressed by traditional, patriarchal discourses
and which can be freed from authoritarianism, for example by
producing and consuming pornography.In taking pornography as a
cultural and social phenomenon, the concepts brought to bear by the
contributors critically scrutinise not only pornography and
medicine, but also current media scholarship. The 21st century has
witnessed a growth in (neo-)liberal academic literature which is
pro-pornography. This book provides a critical counterpoint to this
current academic trend, and demonstrates its lack of engagement
with the politics of the multi-billion dollar pornography industry
which creates the desire for the product it sells, the
individualism of its arguments which analyse pornography as
personal fantasy, and the paucity of theoretical analysis. In
contrast, this book re-opens the feminist debate about pornography
for a new generation of critical thinkers in the 21st century.
Pornography matters politically and ethically. It matters in the
real world as well as in fantasy; it matters to performers as well
as to consumers; it matters to adults as well as to children; and
it matters to men as well as to women.
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