1st Edition

Everyday Pornography

Edited By Karen Boyle Copyright 2011
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

Public and academic debate about ‘porn culture’ is proliferating. Ironically, what is often lost in these debates is a sense of what is specific about pornography. By focusing on pornography’s mainstream – contemporary commercial products for a heterosexual male audience – Everyday Pornography offers the opportunity to reconsider what it is that makes pornography a specific form of industrial... Read more

Introduction: Everyday pornography, Karen Boyle  Part I: Content and context  1. Arresting images: Anti-pornography slideshows, activism and the academy, Gail Dines, Linda Thompson, Rebecca Whisnant, with Karen Boyle  2. Methodological considerations in mapping pornography content, Ana Bridges  3. ‘Now that's pornography’: Violence and domination in Adult Video News, Meagan Tyler  4. Repetition and hyperbole: The gendered choreographies of heteroporn, Susanna Paasonen  5. Cocktail parties: Fetishising semen in pornography beyond bukkake, Lisa Jean Moore & Juliana Weissbein  6. Virtually commercial sex, Sarah Neely  Part II: Address, consumption, regulation  7. Pornography is what the end of the world looks like, Robert Jensen  8. From Jekyll to Hyde: The grooming of male pornography consumers, Rebecca Whisnant  9. Porn consumers' public faces: Mainstream media, address and representation, Karen Boyle  10. To catch a curious clicker: A social network analysis of the online pornography industry, Jennifer Johnson  11. Young men using pornography, Michael Flood  12. 'Students study hard porn': Pornography and the popular press, Mark Jones & Gerry Carlin  13. Marginalising feminism: debating extreme pornography laws in public and policy discourse, Clare McGlynn  Epilogue: How was it for you? Karen Boyle

Biography

Karen Boyle is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow, and is a Director of the Women’s Support Project, a feminist anti-violence organisation. She is author of Media & Violence (2005) and has published widely on gendered violence and feminist media studies.

Everyday Pornography edited by Karen Boyle is a valuable contribution to teachers wondering how to approach this difficult topic.’ - Margaret Hubbar, The Media Education Journal