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Author Bauer, Nancy, 1960- author.

Title How to do things with pornography / Nancy Bauer
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 211 pages)
Contents Pornutopia -- Lady power -- What philosophy can't teach us about sexual objectification -- Beauvoir on the allure of self-objectification -- How to do things with pornography -- What is to be done with Austin? -- On philosophical authority -- Getting things right -- Reel girls and real girls: What becomes of women on film?
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-198) and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed May 16, 2016)
Subject Pornography -- Philosophy
Sex -- Philosophy
Feminist theory.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
PHILOSOPHY -- Criticism.
Feminist theory
Sex -- Philosophy
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674286474
0674286472