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Not Your Father’s Playboy, Not Your Mother’s Feminist Movement: Feminism in a Porn Culture
Freedom Fallacy: The Limits of Liberal Feminism
  • Rebecca Whisnant, University of Dayton
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1-1-2015
Abstract

This chapter is about the state of contemporary feminism and how it relates to the porn culture that surrounds us. This is important because whatever porn culture is, and there are a variety of definitions, it's not what feminists, or women, or anybody with a lick of sense, ever meant by "sexual liberation." There have, however, been contentious debates between radical and liberal feminists about the relationship between pornography, power and choice. I aim to unravel some of those debates here and highlight how liberal notions of "choice," favored by self-proclaimed "third-wave feminists," confuse and undermine our thinking not only about pornography, but about women's oppression and patriarchy generally.

Inclusive pages
3-15
ISBN/ISSN
978-1925138542
Document Version
Published Version
Comments

The document is made available for download pending permission from the publisher. Citation information for the book: Meagan Tyler and Miranda Kiraly, eds., Freedom Fallacy: The Limits of Liberal Feminism, Connor Court Publishing, 2015.

Permission request documentation is on file.

Publisher
Connor Court Publishing
Citation Information
Rebecca Whisnant. "Not Your Father’s Playboy, Not Your Mother’s Feminist Movement: Feminism in a Porn Culture" Freedom Fallacy: The Limits of Liberal Feminism (2015)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/rebecca-whisnant/23/