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Now that pornography is on the Internet, its political and social functions have changed. So contends Margret Grebowicz in this imperative philosophical analysis of Internet porn. The production and consumption of Internet porn, in her account, are a symptom of the obsession with self-exposure in today's social networking media, which is, in turn, a symptom of the modern democratic construction of the governable subject as both transparent and communicative. In this first feminist critique to privilege the effects of pornography's Internet distribution rather than what it depicts, Grebowicz examines porn-sharing communities (such as the bestiality niche market) and the politics of putting women's sexual pleasure on display (the "squirting" market) as part of the larger democratic project. Arguing against this project, she shows that sexual pleasure is not a human right. Unlikely convergences between thinkers like Catherine MacKinnon, Jean Baudrillard, Judith Butler, and Jean-Francois Lyotard allow her to formulate a theory of the relationships between sex, speech, and power that stands as an alternative to such cyber-libertarian mottos as "freedom of speech" and "sexual freedom."

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy Social & political philosophy

• Full title: Why Internet Porn Matters
• Author: Margret Grebowitz
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152
• EAN: 9780804786621
• ISBN: 0804786623
• ID: 01287293
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 160 g
• Dimensions: 204 × 126 × 9 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. February 2013

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