The sexualized body and the medical authority of pornography : performing sexual liberation /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2016.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 176 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 9781443870788 1443870781 |