Pornography Embodied: From Speech to Sexual Practice

By Joan Mason-Grant

Book Overview

What does it mean to re-conceptualize pornography as a material practice rather than as speech? Sidestepping the legal debates over their civil ordinance, and drawing on phenomenology of the lived body, Mason-Grant returns to the innovative core of the Dworkin-MacKinnon critique of mainstream pornography. She develops a 'practice paradigm' that captures and extends their insights, showing how the use of mass-market heterosexual pornography contributes to the cultivation of troubling forms of sexual know-how.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742512231
• ISBN13: 9780742512238
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.1"