Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: From the Profane to the Mundane; 1 Home Sweet Pornographic Home?: Governmental Discourse and Women's Paths to Pornography; 2 The Mainstreamingof Masturbation?:Making Domestic Spacefor Women's Orgasms; 3 Aesthetics and Access; 4 The New Victorians: Lingerie in the Private Sphere; 5 Behind and Beyond the Bedroom Doors: From John Gray to Candida Royalle; 6 Eroticizing the Television; Conclusion: Revisiting Transgression; Notes; Works Cited; Index; About the Author
Summary
Twenty-five years after the start of the feminist sex wars, pornography remains a flashpoint issue, with feminists locked in a familiar argument: Are women victims or agents? In At Home with Pornography, Jane Juffer exposes the fruitlessness of this debate and suggests that it has prevented us from realizing women's changing relationship to erotica and porn. Over the course of these same twenty-five years, there has been a proliferation of sexually explicit materials geared toward women, made available in increasingly mainstream venues. In asking "what is the relationship of women to por
