The Pornography of Representation (Feminist Perspectives)
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Book Overview
This book marks a radical and powerful intervention in traditional arguments about pornography. Kappeler re-examines the artistic distinctions between fantasy and reality, pornography and erotica, and challenges the legal definition of obscenity as well as the intellectual defence of 'freedom of expression'. By linking images of actual violence with the imaginative portrayal of women in the realm of the aesthetic, she establishes vital connections between modes of representation and social forms of power and domination. It is essential reading for anyone concerned with issues of pornography and sexual politics and related debates in literary criticism and cultural studies. This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0816615446
ISBN13:9780816615445
Release Date:January 1986
Publisher:University of Minnesota Press
Length:248 Pages
Weight:0.74 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.2" x 8.3"
Customer Reviews
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Rated 5 starsStill relevant after all these years
By Thriftbooks.com User,
I have to take issue with Peter Summers review of Kappeler's work, which seems to assume a kind of progress that I can't see. He uses as an example of Kappeler's outdatedness the quote: ""It is, in fact, impossible that women, black people, the working classes and consumers attain anything like their 'democratic rights', anything like full human rights and liberty within the present cultural system of values."" Still sounds...
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