Strange bedfellows: Pornography, affect and feminist reading

Feminist Theory

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 43-57

  Paasonen, Susanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Affect; Pornography; Reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847687315     PISSN: 14647001     EISSN: 17412773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1464700107074195     Document Type: Article

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