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At Home with Pornography: Women, Sexuality, and Everyday Life
Jane Juffer
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Description for At Home with Pornography: Women, Sexuality, and Everyday Life
Paperback. Juffer (women's studies and English, U. of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign) takes a position not of liberation or transgression, but of domestication. She explores how women are bringing sex under their control for their own pleasure in everyday life through such means as women's literary erotica, mastur Num Pages: 280 pages, 3 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: JFMP; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 230 x 23. Weight in Grams: 432.
Twenty-five years after the start of the feminist sex wars, pornography remains a flashpoint issue, with feminists locked in a familiar argument: Are women victims or agents? In At Home with Pornography, Jane Juffer exposes the fruitlessness of this debate and suggests that it has prevented us from realizing women's changing relationship to erotica and porn.
Over the course of these same twenty-five years, there has been a proliferation of sexually explicit materials geared toward women, made available in increasingly mainstream venues. In asking "what is the relationship of women to pornography?" Juffer maintains that we need to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814742372
SKU
V9780814742372
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Jane Juffer
Jane Juffer is Professor in the Department of English and the Program of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University. She is the author of three books: Intimacy Across Borders: Race, Religion, and Migration in the U.S. Midwest (2013); Single Mother: The Emergence of the Domestic Intellectual (NYU Press, 2006); and At Home with Pornography: Women, Sex, and Everyday ... Read more
Reviews for At Home with Pornography: Women, Sexuality, and Everyday Life
Illuminates the complex politics of sex in women's everyday lives. At Home with Pornography is an important contribution to a new model of cultural studies and an exciting and valuable addition to contemporary struggles over sexual politics.
Lawrence Grossberg Juffer discusses how in recent years women have been more active in producing erotica for their own enjoyment and shows ... Read more
Lawrence Grossberg Juffer discusses how in recent years women have been more active in producing erotica for their own enjoyment and shows ... Read more