Abstract
This chapter is concerned with how contemporary understandings of pornography and pornification limit the possibility and legitimacy of feminist critique. This comes from a long-standing frustration that some feminist disagreement about pornography derives from scholars working with different objects as pornography (Boyle 2000), and a newer frustration with the implications of ‘pornification’ discourse, in particular the way in which it renders pornography synonymous with ‘sex’ (Boyle 2014a, Tyler and Quek 2016).
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Violence |
| Editors | Nancy Lombard |
| Place of Publication | Oxon |
| Pages | 85-96 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Publication status | Published - 31 Dec 2017 |
Keywords
- Fifty Shades of Grey
- pornography
- pornification
- feminism