B01=Mari Mikkola
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=JBFV
Category=JBFW
Category=JBSF
Category=JBSF11
Category=NL-HP
Category=NL-JF
Category=QDHR9
Category=QDTQ
Category=QDTS
COP=United States
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Format=BC
HMM=234
IMPN=Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN13=9780190257903
Language_English
PA=Available
PD=20170608
POP=New York
Price=€20 to €50
PS=Active
PUB=Oxford University Press Inc
SMM=19
SN=Studies in Feminist Philosophy
Subject=Philosophy
Subject=Society & Culture : General
WG=408
WMM=160
Product details
- ISBN 9780190257903
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 155 x 231 x 19mm
- Publication Date: 20 Apr 2017
- Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: New York, US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
This collection of eleven new essays contains the latest developments in analytic feminist philosophy on the topic of pornography. While honoring early feminist work on the subject, it aims to go beyond speech act analyses of pornography and to reshape the philosophical discourse that surrounds pornography.
A rich feminist literature on pornography has emerged since the 1980s, with Rae Langton's speech act theoretic analysis dominating specifically Anglo-American feminist philosophy on pornography. Despite the predominance of this literature, there remain considerable disagreements and precious little agreement on many key issues: What is pornography? Does pornography (as Langton argues) constitute women's subordination and silencing? Does it objectify women in harmful ways? Is pornography authoritative enough to enact women's subordination? Is speech act theory the best way to approach pornography?
Given the deep divergences over these questions, the first goal of this collection is to take stock of extant debates in order to clarify key feminist conceptual and political commitments regarding pornography. This volume further aims to go beyond the prevalent speech-acts approach to pornography, and to highlight novel issues in feminist pornography-debates, including the aesthetics of pornography, trans* identities and racialization in pornography, and putatively feminist pornography.
Mari Mikkola is Tutorial Fellow at Somerville College and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford. She works mainly on feminist philosophy, and specifically on feminist metaphysics, gender, and pornography. In addition, she has research interests in social ontology, broadly conceived.
