The sexualized body and the medical authority of pornography : performing sexual liberation /

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Imprint:Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
Description:1 online resource (x, 176 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11911534
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Other authors / contributors:Brunskell-Evans, Heather, editor.
ISBN:9781443870788
1443870781
1443899585
9781443899581
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
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Summary:This edited collection examines pornography as a material practice that eroticises gender inequality and sexual violence towards women. It addresses the complex relationship between pornography and medicine (in particular, sexology and psycho-therapy) whereby medicine has historically, and currently, afforded pornography considerable legitimacy and even authority. Pornography naturalises women's submission and men's dominance as if gendered power is rooted in biology not politics. In contrast to the populist view that medicine is objective and rational, the contributors here demonstrate that m.
Other form:Print version: Sexualized body and the medical authority of pornography. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016 1443899585