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By Clarissa Smith

ISBN-10: 1841501646

ISBN-13: 9781841501642

opposed to the claims of accelerating sexualisation of tradition, one truism is consistently rehearsed – that ladies have little style for pornography. in a single for the Girls!, a brand new foundation for realizing women’s pleasures in sexually particular fabrics is on the market targeting the construction and intake of for girls journal. This thought-provoking ebook argues that theories of damage, women’s subordination and debts of results or transgressive potentials have deflected consciousness clear of the lived reports and practices of pornography; drawing on wealthy empirical aspect, One for the Girls!, brings them sharply into view. The ebook examines the ways that pornography has develop into a favoured repository of social fears and debunks the parable of the ‘evil pornographer’ generating photos of objectified girls for stricken male audience. by way of concentrating on a person e-book, this publication illuminates the ways that pornography is a social product and topic to more than a few institutional practices which impression its kinds and displays. considerably this publication strikes past the standard practice session of claims approximately readers’ vulnerability to ideologies hidden within the textual content and makes use of readers’ designations of ‘sexy’ and ‘pleasureable’ to underpin an alternate theorisation of pornography. Exploring readers’ responses to nude male pinups, particular tales and horny articles, the e-book lines the styles of reaction hidden at the back of the name ‘porn reader’.

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