Sex Exposed

by Segal, Lynne; McIntosh, Mary

• ISBN13: 9780813519371
• ISBN10: 0813519373
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-03-01
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Summary

Over the past twenty years debates about pornography have raged within feminism and beyond. Throughout the 1970s feminists increasingly addressed the problem of men's sexual violence against women, and many women reduced the politics of men's power to questions about sexuality. By the 1980s these questions had become more and more focused on the issue of pornography--now a metaphor for the menace of male power. Collapsing feminist politics into sexuality and sexuality into pornography has not only caused some of the deepest splits between feminists, but made it harder to think clearly about either sexuality or pornography--indeed, about feminist politics more generally.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
From Minneapolis to Westminster: Feminism and censorship
Feminist fundamentalism: The shifting politics of sex and censorship	p. 15
Negotiating sex and gender in the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography	p. 29
From Minneapolis to Westminster	p. 50
Troubled pleasures: Dilemmas of desire
Sweet sorrows, painful pleasures: Pornography and the perils of heterosexual desire	p. 65
Just looking for trouble: Robert Mapplethorpe and fantasies of race	p. 92
Gonad the Barbarian and the Venus Flytrap: Portraying the female and male orgasm	p. 111
Pornography and fantasy: Psychoanalytic perspectives	p. 132
The personal as political: Problems with anti-pornography feminism
Liberalism and the contradictions of sexual politics	p. 155
Delightful visions: From anti-porn to eroticizing safer sex	p. 169
Unquestionably a moral issue: Rhetorical devices and regulatory imperatives	p. 184
Classroom conundrums: Sex education and censorship	p. 200
So long as it's not sex and violence: Andrea Dworkin's Mercy	p. 216
To each their own: Differing pornographies
Pornographies on/scene, or diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks	p. 233
Bad girls: Women who use pornography	p. 266
Lesbian erotic explorations	p. 275
The female nude: Pornography, art, and sexuality	p. 280
'A little bit spicy, but not too raw': Mae West, pornography and popular culture	p. 295
Notes	p. 312
Notes on contributors	p. 334
Index	p. 336
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