Poography Embodied:From Speech to Sexual Practice (Feminist Constructions)

by: Joan Mason-Grant (Author)

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Publication Date: 2004/3/12

Language: English

Print Length: 224 pages

ISBN-10: 0742512223

ISBN-13: 9780742512221

Book Description

What does it mean to conceptualize poography as a material practice rather than as speech? Mason-Grant argues that this idea, fundamental to the work of Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon, has been obscured in legal wrangling and political polarization over their civil ordinance. Within the arena of legal argument, where the principle of free speech holds sway for progressive thinkers, their analysis of poography is rendered, at worse, an apology for censorship and, at best, an argument about the social force of speech, rather than recognized as a fundamental challenge to the very idea of poography as speech. In this book, Mason-Grant first shows how the persistent “speech paradigm” inevitably obscures the innovative core of the Dworkin-MacKinnon critique of mainstream poography. She then develops an alteative “practice paradigm” that critically engages their analysis, capturing and extending its core insights about the role of poography in sexual practice. Drawing on phenomenology of the lived body, this alteative paradigm provides a way of re-thinking how the pervasive use of mass-market heterosexual poography contributes to the cultivation of an embodied and tacit sexual know-how that is subordinating, and raises important questions about alteative materials produced and used by sexual minorities. In her conclusion, Mason-Grant considers the implications of her analysis not for law, but for a critical pedagogy in youth sexuality education.

About the Author

What does it mean to conceptualize poography as a material practice rather than as speech? Mason-Grant argues that this idea, fundamental to the work of Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon, has been obscured in legal wrangling and political polarization over their civil ordinance. Within the arena of legal argument, where the principle of free speech holds sway for progressive thinkers, their analysis of poography is rendered, at worse, an apology for censorship and, at best, an argument about the social force of speech, rather than recognized as a fundamental challenge to the very idea of poography as speech. In this book, Mason-Grant first shows how the persistent “speech paradigm” inevitably obscures the innovative core of the Dworkin-MacKinnon critique of mainstream poography. She then develops an alteative “practice paradigm” that critically engages their analysis, capturing and extending its core insights about the role of poography in sexual practice. Drawing on phenomenology of the lived body, this alteative paradigm provides a way of re-thinking how the pervasive use of mass-market heterosexual poography contributes to the cultivation of an embodied and tacit sexual know-how that is subordinating, and raises important questions about alteative materials produced and used by sexual minorities. In her conclusion, Mason-Grant considers the implications of her analysis not for law, but for a critical pedagogy in youth sexuality education.

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