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What Pornography Knows
Sex and Social Protest since the Eighteenth Century
Taschenbuch von Kathleen Lubey
Sprache: Englisch

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"What Pornography Knows offers a new history of pornography based on forgotten bawdy fiction of the eighteenth century, its nineteenth-century republication, and its appearance in 1960s paperbacks. Through close textual study, Lubey shows how these texts were edited across time to become what we think pornography is--a genre focused primarily on sex. Originally, they were far more variable, joining speculative philosophy and feminist theory to sexual description. Lubey's readings show that pornography always had a social consciousness--that it knew, long before anti-pornography feminists said it, that women and nonbinary people are disadvantaged by a society that grants sexual privilege to men. Rather than glorify this inequity, Lubey argues, the genre's central task has historically been to expose its artifice and envision social reform. Centering women's bodies, pornography refuses to divert its focus from genital action, forcing readers to connect sex with its social outcomes. At times inventing their own sexual anatomy and gender identity, at times having their bodies claimed and used by others, pornographic figures bring genitals to the fore, insisting they be justly treated rather than coldly transacted. Lubey offers a surprising take on a deeply misunderstood cultural form: pornography transforms sexual description into feminist commentary, she argues, revealing the genre's deep knowledge of how social inequities are perpetuated as well as plans for how to rectify them"--
"What Pornography Knows offers a new history of pornography based on forgotten bawdy fiction of the eighteenth century, its nineteenth-century republication, and its appearance in 1960s paperbacks. Through close textual study, Lubey shows how these texts were edited across time to become what we think pornography is--a genre focused primarily on sex. Originally, they were far more variable, joining speculative philosophy and feminist theory to sexual description. Lubey's readings show that pornography always had a social consciousness--that it knew, long before anti-pornography feminists said it, that women and nonbinary people are disadvantaged by a society that grants sexual privilege to men. Rather than glorify this inequity, Lubey argues, the genre's central task has historically been to expose its artifice and envision social reform. Centering women's bodies, pornography refuses to divert its focus from genital action, forcing readers to connect sex with its social outcomes. At times inventing their own sexual anatomy and gender identity, at times having their bodies claimed and used by others, pornographic figures bring genitals to the fore, insisting they be justly treated rather than coldly transacted. Lubey offers a surprising take on a deeply misunderstood cultural form: pornography transforms sexual description into feminist commentary, she argues, revealing the genre's deep knowledge of how social inequities are perpetuated as well as plans for how to rectify them"--
Über den Autor
Kathleen Lubey is Professor of English at St. John's University. She is the author of Excitable Imaginations: Eroticism and Reading in Britain, 1660-1760 (2012).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: Pornography Without Sex

1. Genital Parts: Detachable Properties in the Eighteenth Century

2. Feminist Speculations: Penetration and Protest in Pornographic Fiction

3. The Victorian Eighteenth Century: Publishing an Erotics of Inequity

4. Uncoupling: Pornography and Feminism in the Countercultural Era

Coda: A Mindful Pornography
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 312
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781503633117
ISBN-10: 150363311X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Lubey, Kathleen
Hersteller: Stanford University Press
Maße: 151 x 228 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Kathleen Lubey
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.09.2022
Gewicht: 0,476 kg
preigu-id: 121574491
Über den Autor
Kathleen Lubey is Professor of English at St. John's University. She is the author of Excitable Imaginations: Eroticism and Reading in Britain, 1660-1760 (2012).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: Pornography Without Sex

1. Genital Parts: Detachable Properties in the Eighteenth Century

2. Feminist Speculations: Penetration and Protest in Pornographic Fiction

3. The Victorian Eighteenth Century: Publishing an Erotics of Inequity

4. Uncoupling: Pornography and Feminism in the Countercultural Era

Coda: A Mindful Pornography
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 312
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781503633117
ISBN-10: 150363311X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Lubey, Kathleen
Hersteller: Stanford University Press
Maße: 151 x 228 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Kathleen Lubey
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.09.2022
Gewicht: 0,476 kg
preigu-id: 121574491
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