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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818122603321

Autore

McNair Brian <1959-, >

Titolo

Porno? Chic! : how pornography changed the world and made it a better place / / Brian McNair

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-48109-5

0-203-13415-X

1-136-48110-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Disciplina

363.4/7

Soggetti

Pornography - Social aspects

Sex - Social aspects

Pornography in popular culture

Sex in popular culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Pornosphere -- Porno? Chic! -- Porno fear -- What's pornography ever done for us? the argument from evidence -- Gaga-ing for it: the feminisation of pornography and sexual culture -- Pornography and the politics of sexual inclusion -- The aesthetics of sexual transgression -- Drop porn not bombs -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Porno? Chic! examines the relationship between the proliferation of pornography and sexualised culture in the West and social and cultural trends which have advanced the rights of women and homosexuals.Brian McNair addresses this relationship with an analysis of trends in sexualised culture since 2002 linked to a transnational analysis of change in sexual politics and sex/gender relations in a range of societies, from the sexually liberalised societies of advanced capitalism to those in which women and homosexuals remain tightly controlled by authoritarian, patriarchal regim