Definition
Pornography
/pɔrˈnɑɡrəfi/
Readings compiled with courtesy from Richard Kimberly Heck’s Philosophy 1576⇲.
- Gloria Steinem, "Erotica vs Pornography", in Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (New York: Holt, 1983)
- Helen Longino, "Pornography, Oppression, and Freedom: A Closer Look", in A. Jaggar, Living With Contradictions: Controversies In Feminist Social Ethics (New York, Routlege, 1994)
- Catharine A. MacKinnon, "Sexuality, Pornography, and Method: 'Pleasure under Patriarchy'", Ethics 99 (1989)
- Mitchell Green, "Speech Acts", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Catharine A. MacKinnon, Only Words (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1993)
- Joshua Cohen, "Freedom, Equality, Pornography", in J. Spector, ed., Prostitution and Pornography: Philosophical Debate About the Sex Industry (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2006)
- Rae Langton, "Speech Acts and Unspeakable Acts", Philosophy and Public Affairs 22 (1993)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)