Pornographies: Critical Positions - Softcover

Katherine Harrison And Cassandra A. Ogden

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908258322 ISBN 13: 9781908258328

Publisher: University of Chester Press, 2018

Synopsis

Pornography is no longer considered to be a single, homogenous thing. Nor are debates about pornography limited to the reductive anti-porn versus anti-censorship controversies of the mid-twentieth century. Whether we like it or not, pornography today is out in the open, from the ubiquity of porn produced and consumed via the Internet to the mainstreaming of porn aesthetics and practices into mass media and everyday life. Pornography is therefore of central concern to social scientific, arts and humanities research that focuses on sexual freedoms and oppressions, empowerment, gender, feminism and postfeminism, queer identities, normative and non-normative bodies, politics and more. This book conceives of pornographies in the plural and its twelve chapters engage directly with porn across a range of media and from a variety of critical perspectives. From the conceptual importance of pornography in the feminist sex wars to porn produced for female and/or queer sexual pleasure, via examinations of vaginal performance artists, fetish clinics, sexperts, amputee porn, barebacking, tattoos and Japanese erotica, this book illuminates the many ways in which pornographies may be understood in scholarship today.

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About the Author

Katherine Harrison is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Leeds Beckett University, UK. Between 2008 and 2017, she was Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Chester, UK, and Series Editor of the Issues in the Social Sciences book series, published by the University of Chester Press. Her research interests lie in visual cultures, particularly iconic twentieth-century photographs. She is also collaborating on research projects concerning knitting, postfeminism and domestic cultures (with Cassandra A. Ogden) and poverty porn television. Cassandra A. Ogden is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Liverpool John Moores University. Her PhD thesis explored the experiences of children with Inflammatory Bowel Disease, which fuelled her interest in exploring the social disgust of particular bodies and the stigma people face due to perceived differences of the body. Much of Cassandra's current work utilises a critical disability studies perspective but she has also published and co-published on disability hate crime, childhood illness experiences, the social and legal responses to smoking in public and its impact upon the incarcerated, quality of life research, the narrative inquiry technique and the use of food banks in Cheshire.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chester Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908258322
• ISBN 13: 9781908258328
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 333
• Editor: Katherine Harrison, Cassandra A. Ogden