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Other authors / contributors: | Brunskell-Evans, Heather, editor.
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ISBN: | 9781443870788 1443870781 1443899585 9781443899581
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references. Print version record.
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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.
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Other form: | Print version: Sexualized body and the medical authority of pornography. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016 1443899585
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