Definition  
Pornography
/pɔrˈnɑɡrəfi/




Readings compiled with courtesy from Richard Kimberly Heck’s Philosophy 1576⇲.


  1. Gloria Steinem, "Erotica vs Pornography", in Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (New York: Holt, 1983)

  2. Helen Longino, "Pornography, Oppression, and Freedom: A Closer Look", in A. Jaggar, Living With Contradictions: Controversies In Feminist Social Ethics (New York, Routlege, 1994)

  3. Catharine A. MacKinnon, "Sexuality, Pornography, and Method: 'Pleasure under Patriarchy'", Ethics 99 (1989)

  4. Mitchell Green, "Speech Acts", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

  5. Catharine A. MacKinnon, Only Words (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1993)

  6. Joshua Cohen, "Freedom, Equality, Pornography", in J. Spector, ed., Prostitution and Pornography: Philosophical Debate About the Sex Industry (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2006)

  7. Rae Langton, "Speech Acts and Unspeakable Acts", Philosophy and Public Affairs 22 (1993)

  8. Celia Kitzinger and Hannah Frith, "Just Say No? The Use of Conversation Analysis in Developing a Feminist Perspective on Sexual Refusal", Discourse & Society 10 (1999)

  9. Melanie A. Beres, Charlene Y. Senn, and Jodee McCaw, "Navigating Ambivalence: How Heterosexual Young Adults Make Sense of Desire Differences", Journal of Sex Research 51 (2014)

  10. Louise Antony, "Be What I Say: Authority Versus Power in Pornography", in M. Mikkola, ed., Beyond Speech: Pornography and Analytic Feminist Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017)