Pornography and power

Journal of Social Philosophy

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 512-531

  Allen, Amy ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 34247746268     PISSN: 00472786     EISSN: 14679833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0047-2786.00112     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. See Vance, "More Danger, More Pleasure: A Decade after the Barnard Sexuality Conference", in Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality, 2nd ed., ed. Carole Vance (London: Pandora, 1992), xxiii.
2. See R. v. Butler, Supreme Court of Canada, S. C. J. no. 15, 1992.
3. On this point, see also Lynn Chancer, "Feminist Offensives", in Reconcilable Differences: Confronting Beauty, Pornography, and the Future of Feminism (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998), 65-66.
4. For a similar approach, see Ann Ferguson, "Sex War: The Debate between Radical and Libertarian Feminism", Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 10, no. 1(1984):106-12.
5. For this sort of approach, see Rae Langton, "Speech Acts and Unspeakable Acts", Philosophy and Public Affairs 22, no. 4(1993):293-330.
6. For this sort of approach, see Frances Ferguson, "Pornography: The Theory", Critical Inquiry 21(Spring 1995):670-95.
7. For this sort of approach, see Gloria Steinem, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (New York: Signet, 1986).
8. Andrea Dworkin, Pornography: Men Possessing Women (New York: Plume, 1979), 24-25.
9. On this point, see Amy Allen, "Rethinking Power", Hypatia 13, no. 1(1998):21-40.
10. Catharine MacKinnon, Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989), 238.
11. Catharine MacKinnon, Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987), 220.
12. Andrea Dworkin, Intercourse (New York: Free, 1987), 125-26, emphasis added.
13. MacKinnon, Toward a Feminist Theory of the State, 130.
14. Cf. Dworkin, Intercourse, 63.
15. Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon, Pornography and Civil Rights: A New Day for Women's Equality (Minneapolis: Organizing against Pornography, 1988), 101.
16. see Melinda Vadas, "A First Look at the Pornography/Civil Rights Ordinance: Could Pornography Be the Subordination of Women?" Journal of Philosophy 84, no. 9(1987):487-511;
17. and W. A. Parent, "A Second Look at Pornography and the Subordination of Women", Journal of Philosophy 87, no. 4(1990):205-11.
18. On this point, see Allen, "Rethinking Power"
19. Cf. Dworkin, Pornography, xxxvii;
20. MacKinnon, Feminism Unmodified, 30, 45.
21. On this point, see Nancy Fraser, "Beyond the Master/Subject Model", in Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflections on the "Postsocialist" Condition (New York: Routledge, 1997).
22. See, for example, Angela Harris, "Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory", in Feminist Legal Theory: Readings in Law and Gender, ed. Katharine T. Bartlett and Rosanne Kennedy (Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1991).
23. MacKinnon, Feminism Unmodified, 53.
24. On this point, see also Anna Yeatman, "Feminism and Power", in Reconstructing Political Theory: Feminist Perspectives, ed. Mary Lyndon Shanley and Uma Narayan (University Park: Penn State Press, 1997), 147.
25. see Sally Tisdale, "Talk Dirty to Me", Harpers (February 1992): 37-46.
26. see Chancer, "Feminist Offensives"
27. For an extended argument to this effect, see Harry Brod, "Pornography and the Alienation of Male Sexuality", Social Theory and Practice 14, no. 3(Fall 1988):265-84.
28. For an extended argument to this effect, see Wendy Brown, "The Mirror of Pornography", in States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995), 77-95.
29. Tisdale, "Talk Dirty to Me", 45.
30. Lisa Duggan, "Feminist Historians and Antipornography Campaigns: An Overview", in Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Culture, ed. Lisa Duggan and Nan Hunter (New York: Routledge, 1995), 72.
31. Lisa Duggan, "Sex Panics", in Duggan and Hunter, Sex Wars, 76.
32. see Ann Snitow, "Retrenchment versus Transformation: The Politics of the Anti-Pornography Movement", in Caught Looking: Feminism, Pornography, and Censorship, ed. FACT Book Committee (New York: Caught Looking, 1986), 13.
33. Carole Vance, "Pleasure and Danger: Toward a Politics of Sexuality", in Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality, 2nd ed. (London: Pandora, 1992), 7.
34. Snitow, "Retrenchment versus Transformation", 16.
35. Kate Ellis, "I'm Black and Blue from the Rolling Stones and I'm Not Sure How I Feel about It: Pornography and the Feminist Imagination", in FACT Book Committee, Caught Looking, 44.
36. Lisa Duggan, Nan Hunter, and Carole Vance, "False Promises", in FACT Book Committee, Caught Looking, 82.
37. Ellen Willis, "Feminism, Moralism, and Pornography", in Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality, ed. Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell, and Sharon Thompson (New York: Monthly Review, 1983), 462.
38. Gayle Rubin, "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality", in Vance, Pleasure and Danger, 278.
39. Willis, "Feminism, Moralism, and Pornography", 464.
40. Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction, trans. Robert Hurley (New York: Vintage, 1978), 1-49.
41. Allen, The Power of Feminist Theory: Domination, Resistance, Solidarity (Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1999).
42. See, for example, Sara Ruddick, Maternal Thinking: Toward a Politics of Peace (New York: Ballantine, 1989);
43. and Virginia Held, Feminist Morality: Transforming Culture, Society, and Politics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993).
44. Judith Butler, Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (New York: Routledge, 1993), 15.
45. Linda Williams, Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible" (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989), 14.
46. See ibid., 86. Cf. Foucault, History of Sexuality, Volume 1, 95-96.
47. On this point, see Amy Allen, "Foucault on Power: A Theory for Feminists", in Feminist Interpretations of Michel Foucault, ed. Susan Hekman (University Park: Penn State Press, 1996).
48. Michel Foucault, "The Ethic of Care for the Self as a Practice of Freedom", in The Final Foucault, ed. James Bernauer and David Rasmussen (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988), 12.
49. See Butler, Bodies that Matter, chap. 4, for a discussion of this point.
50. Judith Butler, Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative (New York: Routledge, 1997), 69.
51. Williams, Hard Core, 274.