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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Brunskell-Evans, Heather (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
Temas:
Pornography > Social aspects.
Medical anthropology.
Feminism.
Women > Violence against.
Sex role.
Pornographie > Aspect social.
Féminisme.
Femmes > Violence envers.
Rôle selon le sexe.
feminism.
sex role.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Feminism
Medical anthropology
Pornography > Social aspects
Sex role
Women > Violence against
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 176 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781443870788
1443870781

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