This book marks a radical and powerful intervention in traditional
arguments about pornography. Kappeler re-examines the artistic
distinctions between fantasy and reality, pornography and erotica,
and challenges the legal definition of obscenity as well as the
intellectual defence of ‘freedom of expression’. By linking images
of actual violence with the imaginative portrayal of women in the
realm of the aesthetic, she establishes vital connections between
modes of representation and social forms of power and domination.
It is essential reading for anyone concerned with issues of
pornography and sexual politics and related debates in literary
criticism and cultural studies.
Tabella dei contenuti
Acknowledgements vii
Preamble 1
Problem 1 Fact and Fiction 5
Problem 2 Human Rights 11
Problem 3 Obscenity and Censorship 18
Problem 4 Porn vs Erotica 35
Problem 5 Subjects, Objects and Equal Opportunities 49
Problem 6 Why Look at Women? 63
Problem 7 Art and Pornography 82
Problem 8 The Literary and the Production of Value 101
Problem 9 The Book Business 123
Problem 10 Playing in the Literary Sanctuary 133
Problem 11 Collaboration 148
Problem 12 Communication 167
Problem 13 Sex/Sexuality 196
Postscript 212
Practical Perspectives 220
Notes 223
Index 239
Circa l’autore
Susanne Kappeler Lecturer in English at the University of East Anglia and works as a freelance writer and teacher in both England and Germany. She authored Reading and Writing in Henry James and was also co-editor of Teaching the Text.
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