How to Do Things with Pornography

✍ Scribed by Nancy Bauer

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 227
• Edition: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In Nancy Bauer’s view, most feminist philosophers are content to work within theoretical frameworks that are false to human beings’ everyday experiences. Here she models a new way to write about pornography, women’s self-objectification, hook-up culture, and other contemporary phenomena, and in doing so she raises basic questions about philosophy.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
1. Pornutopia
2. Lady Power
3. What Philosophy Can’t Teach Us about Sexual Objectification
4. Beauvoir on the Allure of Self-Objectification
5. How to Do Things with Pornography
6. What Is to Be Done with Austin?
7. On Philosophical Authority
8. Getting Things Right
9. Reel Girls and Real Girls: What Becomes of Women on Film?
Notes
Acknowledgments
Credits
Index