LIT 6855: Readings for Pornography Debates


"Pornography: The Theory" by Frances Ferguson (CI, Spring 1995) 670-695

"The Force of Fantasy" by Judith Butler (differences, 2.2 1990) 105-125

"(Male) Desire and (Female) Disgust" by Laura Kipnis (Cultural Studies Routledge, 1991) 373-376.

"Public Sex" by Pat Califia (from Public Sex, Cleis Press, 1994) 71-82.

"Politically Correct? Politically Incorrect?" by Muriel Dimen (Pleasure and Danger Routledge, 1984) 138-148

"Lethal Bodies" by Tania Modleski (from Feminism Without Women, Routledge, 1991) 135-163.

"Baudy Bandwith" by Harvey Blume (from Tolstoy's Dictaphone ed. Sven Birkerts, Graywolf Press, 1998).