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Pornography Embodied
Joan Mason-Grant
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Description for Pornography Embodied
Hardback. 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. Series: Feminist Constructions. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 381.
What does it mean to conceptualize pornography as a material practice rather than as speech? Mason-Grant argues that this idea, fundamental to the work of Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon, has been obscured in legal wrangling and political polarization over their civil ordinance. Within the arena of legal argument, where the principle of free speech holds sway for progressive thinkers, their analysis of pornography is rendered, at worse, an apology for censorship and, at best, an argument about the social force of speech, rather than recognized as a fundamental challenge to the very idea of pornography as speech. In ... Read more
What does it mean to conceptualize pornography as a material practice rather than as speech? Mason-Grant argues that this idea, fundamental to the work of Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon, has been obscured in legal wrangling and political polarization over their civil ordinance. Within the arena of legal argument, where the principle of free speech holds sway for progressive thinkers, their analysis of pornography is rendered, at worse, an apology for censorship and, at best, an argument about the social force of speech, rather than recognized as a fundamental challenge to the very idea of pornography as speech. In ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Feminist Constructions
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780742512221
SKU
V9780742512221
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About Joan Mason-Grant
Joan Mason-Grant is a professor at the Social Justice and Peace Studies program of King's University College at the University of Western Ontario.
Reviews for Pornography Embodied
In direct and conceptually vivid prose, Mason-Grant extradites the core of the Dworkin/McKinnon analysis of pornography from its distorting entanglement with legal issues of freedom of speech. In restoring the 'practice paradigm' Mason-Grant elaborates a compelling and disturbing phenomenological account of pornography as a lived corporeal practice of sexual know-how. For the many of us who have misconceived Dworkin and ... Read more