| Description |
xvii, 405 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Speech acts and unspeakable acts -- Dangerous confusion? Response to Ronald Dworkin -- Freedom of illocution? Response to Daniel Jacobson / Rae Langton, Jennifer Hornsby -- Pornography's authority? Response to Leslie Green -- Pornography's divine command? Response to Judith Butler -- Whose right? Ronald Dworkin, women, and pornographers -- Equality and moralism: response to Ronald Dworkin -- Scorekeeping in a pornographic language game / Rae Langton, Caroline West -- Duty and desolation -- Autonomy: denial in objectification -- Projection and objectification -- Feminism in epistemology: exclusion and objectification -- Speaker's freedom and maker's knowledge -- Sexual solipsism -- Love and solipsism |
| Summary |
"Rae Langton here draws together her work on pornography and objectification, and shows how both involve a kind of solipsism, a failure to treat women as fully human. She argues that pornography is a speech act that subordinates and silences women, and that, given certain liberal principles, women have rights against it. She explores the traditional Kantian idea that there is something wrong with treating a person as a thing, and highlights an additional epistemological dimension to objectification: it is through a kind of self-fulfilling projection of beliefs about women as subordinate that women are treated as things. These controversial essays include three new pieces written especially for the volume. They will make stimulating reading for anyone interested in feminism's dialogue with moral and political philosophy."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [383]-398) and index |
| Subject |
Feminism.
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Feminist theory.
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Pornography -- Social aspects.
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Objectification (Social psychology)
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Women -- Social conditions.
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| Author |
Oxford University Press.
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| LC no. |
2008053084 |
| ISBN |
0199247064 (hbk.) |
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0199551456 (paperback) |
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9780199247066 (hbk.) |
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9780199551453 (paperback) |
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