Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality

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First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Acknowledgment One: Introduction: Pornographic Dodges and Distortions The Dodges and Distortions The Dodges Definitional Dodge Constitutional Dodge Causal Dodge The Distortions Offensiveness and Oppression Against Sex? Our Task and Goal Two: Feminists Confront Pornography’s Subordinating Practices: Politics and Strategies for Change Violence in Women’s Lives is the Issue Publicizing the Harm and Issues of Accountability Pornography as Industry Sexualization of Inequalities Women in Pornography’s Photographic Representations Consumption of Pornography and Harm Pornography, Sexual Repression, and the Right-Wing Victimization and Empowerment Conclusion Notes Three: Dirty Business: Playboy Magazine and the Mainstreaming of Pornography Playboy Magazine and the “Pro-Family," Anti-Female 1950s Selling Playboy to the Playboy The Competitive Dynamics of the Mass-Distributed Pornography Magazine Industry The Playboy and the Hustler: Marketing Hefner and Flynt Michael Ninn and the Video Pornography Industry: The Hefner of the 90s? The Missing Links: Putting the Women Back in Pornography Notes Four: The Content of Mass-Marketed Pornography A Tour through a Pornography Store Literature Review and Method The Videos Scrutinizing the Female Body Sexual Response The Cum Shot Anal Sex Control Violence Race Age The Novels Themes of Pornographic Novels Hierarchy Objectification Submission Violence The Ideology of Male Supremacy Conclusion Five: Using Pornography Science and Stories The Limits of Experimental Research Listening to Stories What We Can Know Women’s Narratives Silbert and Pines Study Russell Study Kelly Study Minneapolis Hearings Attorney General’s Commission Men’s Narratives Pornography Users and Sex Offenders Craig Larry Kevin Brad David Seeing Patterns My Narrative Embodied Narratives A Personal History of Pornography Use Pornography and I Sex Education Objectification of Women Desire Scripting Sex Race Violence and Pornography Sex and Violence in the World Control A Footnote Six: “Feeding People in all Their Hungers”: One Woman’s Attempt to Link the Struggle Against Violence with the Struggle for Sexual Freedom Sexual Violence/Sexual Stigma Seven: The Pain of Pornography Playing by the Rules Pain and Gender Victims and Pain Victimizers and Pain Essentialism and Empathy From Here Eight: Living in Two Worlds: An Activist in the Academy Appendix Videos Analyzed Novels Analyzed References Index