Explicit utopias : rewriting the sexual in women's pornography / Amalia Ziv.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ziv, Amalia, 1964- lat, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pornography--Social aspects.

Pornography.

Feminism.

Feminist theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany, [New York] : SUNY Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Explicit Utopias explores a problem that has long haunted feminist, lesbian, and queer critics: the obstacles to imagining women's desire and sexual agency. Pornography is one arena in which women have actively sought to imaginatively overcome this problem, yet pornography has also been an object of passionate feminist contention. Revisiting the feminist sex wars of the 1980s, Amalia Ziv offers a comprehensive and thoughtful reassessment of the arguments and concerns of both camps, tying these early debates to the contemporary surge of concern over the pornification of culture. She also sets out to rectify the lack of critical attention to marginal sexual representations by examining the feminist, queer, and psychoanalytic literature on several key issues, including fantasy, the phallus, identification, and gender performativity.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction: pornography, subjectivity, and the reinscription of fantasy

Between sexual commodities and sexual subjects : the feminist pornography debate revisited

The phantasmatic gay man : cross-identification in women's porn

Refiguring penetration

The phallus and its vicissitudes

Sexuality beyond gender : gender performativity in lesbian pornography

Female sexual subjectivity in a queer world coda : pornographic pedagogy, explicit utopias, and the future of female sexual subjectivity

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438457109

1438457103