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Author: Edward I. Donnerstein Publisher: ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 296
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A groundbreaking look at the Meese Commission's conclusions on pornography in America, offering powerful evidence that images of violence increase aggressive behavior and, rejecting censorship as a solution, documenting how education can counter the harmful effects of pornography.
Author: Edward I. Donnerstein Publisher: ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 296
Book Description
A groundbreaking look at the Meese Commission's conclusions on pornography in America, offering powerful evidence that images of violence increase aggressive behavior and, rejecting censorship as a solution, documenting how education can counter the harmful effects of pornography.
Author: Edward I. Donnerstein Publisher: ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 296
Book Description
A groundbreaking look at the Meese Commission's conclusions on pornography in America, offering powerful evidence that images of violence increase aggressive behavior and, rejecting censorship as a solution, documenting how education can counter the harmful effects of pornography.
Author: Andrew Altman Publisher: Debating Ethics ISBN: 0199358702 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 337
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Since the sexual revolution of the 1960s, debates over pornography have raged, and the explosive spread in recent years of sexually explicit images across the Internet has only added more urgency to these disagreements. Politicians, judges, clergy, citizen activists, and academics have weighed in on the issues for decades, complicating notions about what precisely is at stake, and who stands to benefit or be harmed by pornography. This volume takes an unusual but radical approach by analyzing pornography philosophically. Philosophers Andrew Altman and Lori Watson recalibrate debates by viewing pornography from distinctly ethical platforms -- namely, does a person's right to produce and consume pornography supersede a person's right to protect herself from something often violent and deeply misogynistic? In a for-and-against format, Altman first argues that there is an individual right to create and view pornographic images, rooted in a basic right to sexual autonomy. Watson counteracts Altman's position by arguing that pornography inherently undermines women's equal status. Central to their disagreement is the question of whether pornography truly harms women enough to justify laws aimed at restricting the production and circulation of such material. Through this debate, the authors address key questions that have dogged both those who support and oppose pornography: What is pornography? What is the difference between the material widely perceived as objectionable and material that is merely erotic or suggestive? Do people have a right to sexual arousal? Does pornography, or some types of it, cause violence against women? How should rights be weighed against consequentialist considerations in deciding what laws and policies ought to be adopted? Bolstered by insights from philosophy and law, the two authors engage in a reasoned examination of questions that cannot be ignored by anyone who takes seriously the values of freedom and equality.
Author: Rae Langton Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199247064 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 424
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Rae Langton here draws together her ground-breaking and contentious work on pornography and objectification. She shows how women come to be objectified and she argues for the controversial feminist conclusions that pornography subordinates and silences women, and women have rights against pornography.
Author: Nancy Bauer Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674286499 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 230
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Feminist philosophers have made important strides in altering the overwhelmingly male-centric discipline of philosophy. Yet, in Nancy Bauer’s view, most are still content to work within theoretical frameworks that are fundamentally false to human beings’ everyday experiences. This is particularly intolerable for a species of philosophy whose central aspiration is to make the world a less sexist place. How to Do Things with Pornography models a new way to write philosophically about pornography, women’s self-objectification, hook-up culture, and other contemporary phenomena. Unafraid to ask what philosophy contributes to our lives, Bauer argues that the profession’s lack of interest in this question threatens to make its enterprise irrelevant. Bauer criticizes two paradigmatic models of Western philosophizing: the Great Man model, according to which philosophy is the product of rare genius; and the scientistic model, according to which a community of researchers works together to discover once-and-for-all truths. The philosopher’s job is neither to perpetuate the inevitably sexist trope of the philosopher-genius nor to “get things right.” Rather, it is to compete with the Zeitgeist and attract people to the endeavor of reflecting on their settled ways of perceiving and understanding the world. How to Do Things with Pornography boldly enlists J. L. Austin’s How to Do Things with Words, showing that it should be read not as a theory of speech acts but as a revolutionary conception of what philosophers can do in the world with their words.
Author: Pamela Paul Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 1429900792 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 324
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"Strips porn of its culture-war claptrap . . . Pornified may stand as a Kinsey Report for our time."—San Francisco Chronicle Porn in America is everywhere—not just in cybersex and Playboy but in popular video games, advice columns, and reality television shows, and on the bestseller lists. Even more striking, as porn has become affordable, accessible, and anonymous, it has become increasingly acceptable—and a big part of the personal lives of many men and women. In this controversial and critically acclaimed book, Pamela Paul argues that as porn becomes more pervasive, it is destroying our marriages and families as well as distorting our children's ideas of sex and sexuality. Based on more than one hundred interviews and a nationally representative poll, Pornified exposes how porn has infiltrated our lives, from the wife agonizing over the late-night hours her husband spends on porn Web sites to the parents stunned to learn their twelve-year-old son has seen a hardcore porn film. Pornified is an insightful, shocking, and important investigation into the costs and consequences of pornography for our families and our culture.
Author: Susan Griffin Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1504012194 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 279
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A masterwork of feminist ideology, brilliantly exposing pornography as the antithesis of free expression and the enemy of liberty In this powerful and devastating critique, poet, philosopher, and feminist Susan Griffin exposes the inherent psychological horrors of pornography. Griffin argues that, rather than encouraging expression, pornographic images and the philosophies that support them actually stifle freedoms through the dehumanization, subjugation, and degradation of female subjects. The pornographic mindset, Griffin contends, is akin to racism in that it causes dangerous schisms in society and promotes sexual regression, fear, and hatred. This violent rift in Western culture is explored by examining the lives of six notable individuals across two centuries: Franz Marc, the Marquis de Sade, Kate Chopin, Lawrence Singleton, Anne Frank, and Marilyn Monroe. The result is an extraordinary new approach to evaluating sexual health and the parameters of erotic imagination. Griffin reveals pornography as “not a love of the life of the body, but a fear of bodily knowledge, and a desire to silence Eros.”
Author: Susan Dwyer Publisher: Belmont, Calif. ; Toronto : Wadsworth ISBN: Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 286
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Susan Dwyer's The Problem of Pornography is the first anthology to present a balanced view of the scope of arguments concerning the nature of pornography and censorship. Devoted exclusively to the topic, Dwyer's book presents a range of feminist and other responses to pornography from influential women and men, including Andrea Dworkin, Catharine MacKinnon, Helen Longino, Ronald Dworkin, Stanley Fish, and John Stoltenberg. By not promoting any single view, The Problem of Pornography encourages comparison and debate. This excellent collection stresses the complexity of debate surrounding free speech issues, and includes chapters that address the limits of both censorship and First Amendment absolutism. Dwyer's book contains: a section on gay pornography ; a legal appendix describing central Supreme Court cases in both the United States and Canada ; important legal milestones, including the Minneapolis Anti-Pornography Ordinance. (Back cover).
Author: Edward I. Donnerstein
Author: Edward I. Donnerstein
Author: Edward I. Donnerstein
Author: Tristan Taormino
Author: Robert Jensen
Author: Andrew Altman
Author: Rae Langton
Author: Nancy Bauer
Author: Pamela Paul
Author: Susan Griffin
Author: Susan Dwyer