At Home with Pornography: Women, Sexuality, and Everyday Life

by Jane Juffer

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814742378
• ISBN13: 9780814742372
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

It looks at facts and not theories to develop is discourse

At the introduction the author gets into a lingo of cross references with other writers which invites to an early closing of the book, but when the author goes to explain how women and market forces have colluded to turn products which deal with sexual descriptions and sexual practices from being labeled pornography and now called erotic, the reading takes flight and gives hope that fascist such as Andrea Dworkin and the likes of the Messe Commission will not be able to revert women to a home cage as the only place were there their sexual desires are acceptable.

Wonderful Book!

A very refreshing view of women and pornography! People have been brainwashed for years about how horrible pornography is toward women! So its about time someone starts to point out the wonderful aspects of women and porn! There is certainly nothing degrading about porn!