Gender Reconstructions: Pornography and Perversions in Literature and Culture - Hardcover

Carlson, Cindy; Mazzola, Robert L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754602869 ISBN 13: 9780754602866

Publisher: Routledge, 2002

Synopsis

Timely and politically pertinent, this collection of essays links the fields of women’s studies and cultural studies, examining women’s desires and women as objects of desire. Working in diverse disciplines and time periods, the contributors address the common theme of 'perversion' as a cultural, often linguistic, construct. Analysing texts and images from medieval times to the twentieth century, the volume affords the reader modernist and postmodernist perspectives on the connected issues of erotics, pornography, and perversion.

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Synopsis

This volume addresses the perverse as it relates to women in various cultural and literary contexts. The debate surrounding the pornographic is underscored by critical theories that address language, image and text as either gendered or neutral, author-based or the products of the history, and the contextualizing of powers of language itself. The essays in this book look at the notion of perversion as it impacts women through traditional and less traditional modes of questioning. The contibutors examine the implications of the cultural manifestations of the perverse contained within a particular piece of literature that they have chosen.

About the Author

Cindy Carlson, Metropolitan State College of Denver, USA, Robert L. Mazzola, and Susan Bernardo, Wagner College, USA Martine van Elk, Cindy L. Carlson, Susan M. Bernardo, Eleanor Salotto, Deborah Caslav Covino, Ernestine Daubner, Robert L. Mazzola, Gregory J. Rubinson, Heather B. Kerr, Kelly L. Thomas, Ann Bomberger.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0754602869
• ISBN 13: 9780754602866
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224