Pornography: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9783631792636 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 384 str.

Frank Jacob

Opis

Pornography can tell us many things about a society, when it is seriously considered as a topic for scientific research. The present volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on the subject and shows how pornography can be studied and what we can learn from such studies, e.g., about the construction of gender roles and their representation in pornographic media. Specialists from different fields provide insight into their approach towards the scientific study of pornography and thereby highlight that serious research on pornographic content from different time periods offers valuable findings about older and modern societies alike.

Spis treści

What distincts pornographic content from art - The role of fetishes and stereotypes for the creation and perception of pornography - Legal, political, and social aspects related to pornographic media - Questions of liberation, domination, and exploitation that can be asked with regard to pornographic contents and the images that are represented in it

O autorze

Frank Jacob is Professor of Global History at Nord Universitet, Norway, where he began to work in 2018, after having served as Assistant Professor at the City University of New York (QCC). He received his MA in History and Japanese Studies from the University of Würzburg and his PhD in Japanese Studies from Erlangen University. His main research foci are Japanese History, Transnational Anarchism, and Film History.