Pornography Embodied: From Speech to Sexual Practice

by Joan Mason-Grant

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742512223
• ISBN13: 9780742512221
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 224 Pages
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"