Sexual solipsism : philosophical essays on pornography and objectification / Rae Langton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Langton, Rae, 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pornography--Social aspects.

Pornography.

Women--Social conditions.

Women.

Feminist theory.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 405 pages)

Other Title:

Philosophical essays on pornography and objectification

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Rae Langton here draws together her ground-breaking and contentious work on pornography and objectification. She shows how women come to be objectified and she argues for the controversial feminist conclusions that pornography subordinates and silences women, and women have rights against pornography.

Contents:

Speech acts and unspeakable acts

Dangerous confusion? Response to Ronald Dworkin

Freedom of illocution? Response to Daniel Jacobson / Rae Langton, Jennifer Hornsby

Pornography's authority? Response to Leslie Green

Pornography's divine command? Response to Judith Butler

Whose right? Ronald Dworkin, women, and pornographers

Equality and moralism: response to Ronald Dworkin

Scorekeeping in a pornographic language game / Rae Langton, Caroline West

Duty and desolation

Autonomy: denial in objectification

Projection and objectification

Feminism in epistemology: exclusion and objectification

Speaker's freedom and maker's knowledge

Sexual solipsism

Love and solipsism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-398) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-955145-6

0-19-156754-X

1-283-11575-1

9786613115751

0-19-156426-5

OCLC:

729244612