Beyond speech : pornography and analytic feminist philosophy / edited by Mari Mikkola.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mikkola, Mari, editor.

Series:

Studies in feminist philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pornography.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

x, 275 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

Summary:

This Collection of Eleven New Essays contains the latest developments in analytic feminist philosophy on the topic of pornography. While honoring early feminist work on the subject, it aims to go beyond speech act analyses of pornography and to reshape the philosophical discourse that surrounds pornography. A rich feminist literature on pornography has emerged since the 1980s, with Rae Langton's speech act theoretic analysis dominating specifically Anglo-American feminist philosophy on pornography. Despite the predominance of this literature, there remain considerable disagreements and precious little agreement on many key issues: What is pornography? Does pornography (as Langton argues) constitute women's subordination and silencing? Does it objectify women in harmful ways? Is pornography authoritative enough to enact women's subordination? Is speech act theory the best way to approach pornography? Given the deep divergences over these questions, the first goal of this collection is to take stock of extant debates in order to clarify key feminist conceptual and political commitments regarding pornography. This volume further aims to go beyond the prevalent speech-acts approach to pornography, and to highlight novel issues in feminist pornography debates, including the aesthetics of pornography, trans identities and racialization in pornography, and putatively feminist pornography. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Feminist Philosophy and Pornography: The Past, The Present, and The Future / Hilkje Charlotte Hänel Hänel, Hilkje Charlotte, Mari Mikkola Mikkola, Mari 1

Part I Speech Act Approaches to Pornography

Chapter 2 Is Pornography Like The Law? / Rae Langton Langton, Rae 23

Chapter 3 On Multiple Types of Silencing / Mary Kate McGowan McGowan, Mary Kate 39

Chapter 4 Be What I Say: Authority Versus Power in Pornography / Louise Antony Antony, Louise 59

Part II Pornography and Social Ontology

Chapter 5 What Women are For: Pornography and Social Ontology / Katharine Jenkins Jenkins, Katharine 91

Chapter 6 Pornographic Artifacts: Maker's Intentions Model / Mari Mikkola Mikkola, Mari 113

Part III Objectification as Harm of Pornography

Chapter 7 Treating Pornography as a Woman and Women's Objectification / Lina Papadaki Papadaki, Lina 137

Chapter 8 Getting "Naked" in the Colonial/Modern Gender System: A Preliminary Trans Feminist Analysis of Pornography / Talia Mae Bettcher Bettcher, Talia Mae 157

Chapter 9 Race and Pornography: The Dilemma of the (Un)Desirable / Robin Zheng Zheng, Robin 177

Part IV Feminist Pornography: An Oxymoron?

Chapter 10 Falling in Lust: Sexiness, Feminism, and Pornography / Hans Maes Maes, Hans 199

Chapter 11 In/Egalitarian Pornography: A Simplistic View of Pornography / Petra van Brabandt Brabandt, Petra van 221

Chapter 12 Feminist Pornography / A. W. Eaton Eaton, A. W. 243.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Beyond speech.

ISBN:

9780190257903

0190257903

9780190257910

0190257911

OCLC:

960837219