How to do things with pornography
by Bauer, Nancy
In Nancy Bauer's view, most feminist philosophers are content to work within theoretical frameworks that are false to human beings' everyday experiences. Here she models a new way to write about pornography, women's self-objectification, hook-up culture, and other contemporary phenomena, and in doing so she raises basic questions about philosophy.
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- Full title :How to do things with pornography / Nancy Bauer.
Summary
In Nancy Bauer's view, most feminist philosophers are content to work within theoretical frameworks that are false to human beings' everyday experiences. Here she models a new way to write about pornography, women's self-objectification, hook-up culture, and other contemporary phenomena, and in doing so she raises basic questions about philosophy.
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- Publication Date:2015.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xiv, 211 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780674286474, 0674286472
- oclc:ocn905696285
- LC Classification:HQ471
- Dewey Decimal:306.7701
Table of Contents
Pornutopia -- Lady power -- What philosophy can't teach us about sexual objectification -- Beauvoir on the allure of self-objectification -- How to do things with pornography -- What is to be done with Austin? -- On philosophical authority -- Getting things right -- Reel girls and real girls: What becomes of women on film?
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