By engaging in an empirical investigation of the pornography industry itself, the authors of this text - each grounded in the radical feminist anti-pornography movement - intend to move beyond the rhetorical bomb-tossing of an often polarized debate. The authors engage in a systematic examination of the politics, production, content and consumption of contemporary mass-market heterosexual pornography, with the aim of contributing to a fuller understanding of pornography's role in the cultural construction of gender, racial and sexual identities and relations. They begin with an overview of...
By engaging in an empirical investigation of the pornography industry itself, the authors of this text - each grounded in the radical feminist anti-po...
Astonishingly, the average age of first viewing porn is now 11.5 years for boys, and with the advent of the Internet, it's no surprise that young people are consuming more porn than ever. And, as Gail Dines shows, today's porn is strikingly different from yesterday's Playboy. As porn culture has become absorbed into pop culture, a new wave of entrepreneurs are creating porn that is even more hard-core, violent, sexist, and racist. Proving that porn desensitizes and actually limits our sexual freedom, Dines argues its omnipresence is a public health concern we can no longer ignore.
Astonishingly, the average age of first viewing porn is now 11.5 years for boys, and with the advent of the Internet, it's no surprise that young peop...
Designed to engage students in critical, mass media scholarship, this book includes issues of power that is related to gender, race, and class are integrated into a range of articles examining the economic and cultural implications of mass media as institutions, including the political economy of media production, and media consumption.
Designed to engage students in critical, mass media scholarship, this book includes issues of power that is related to gender, race, and class are int...
