Sex Pots - Hardcover

Mathieu

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813532930 ISBN 13: 9780813532936

Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 2003

Synopsis

Over the past twenty years debates about pornography have raged within feminism and beyond. Throughout the 1970s feminists increasingly addressed the problem of men's sexual violence against women, and many women reduced the politics of men's power to questions about sexuality. By the 1980s these questions had become more and more focused on the issue of pornography--now a metaphor for the menace of male power. Collapsing feminist politics into sexuality and sexuality into pornography has not only caused some of the deepest splits between feminists, but made it harder to think clearly about either sexuality or pornography--indeed, about feminist politics more generally.

This provocative collection, by well-known feminists, surveys these arguments, and in particular asks why recent feminist debates about sexuality keep reducing to questions of pornography.

About this title

About the Author

Paul Mathieu is a well-known Canadian ceramist. He currently teaches at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver. He often gives lectures and demonstrations. He presented the precursor of Sex Pots as a lecture at NCECA in Minneapolis a few years ago. He frequently contributes articles to ceramics journals.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813532930
• ISBN 13: 9780813532936
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224