By Julia Long
Anti-porn feminism is again. Countering the continued "pornification" of Western tradition and society, anti-porn hobbies are powerfully re-emerging between a brand new iteration of feminist activists within the united kingdom and around the world.
Anti-Porn: The Resurgence of Anti-Porn Feminism examines the ways that the hot feminist arguments and campaigns round pornography are articulated, deployed and acquired. Drawing on unique, ethnographic learn, it presents an in-depth research of the ideological stance, tactical repertoires, impression and value of crusade teams tough the pornography undefined.
This designated and encouraging publication explains the fabulous comeback of anti-porn feminism and demanding situations liberal views and the mainstreaming on pornography of pornography that alterations the character of our intimate relationships.
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Is the cunning of cunning lingua the play of fantasy in auto-eroticism? When Toto pronounces total satisfaction (‘in this world of scarcity and lack you lack nothing/there is nothing stinting nor niggardly you are gorged/and sated’ (Fallon 1989: 51)), does she do so without a word of exchange? ). : 209). In a related gesture, Fallon figures homo-erotic exchange in a language which never forgets its lips. But Fallon’s is perhaps a more radical gesture of speaking which consumes its own subject. In cunning lingua, language is devoured as well as exchanged, expressing and exciting an abundance of sexual appetite: interlocutors stuff each other’s mouths and cunts with arousing tongue-twisters ‘until we/were no longer just I and I’ (1989: 51).
NOTES 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 My thanks to Judith Halperstam for finding and reciting ‘The Journey of the Magi’ for me. I also want to thank her for the inspiring and challenging readings she performed on my writing while I was here. For those who have not had the pleasure of visiting San Diego, I should point out that the airport is located in the middle of the city; my apartment being pretty well underneath the flight path. The reader will recognize my debt to Grosz and especially to her essay ‘Refiguring Lesbian Desire’ (1994) which is one of my points of departure here.
When the dialangue is reduced to one-sided nourishing, when Freda ‘does not love her [Toto] enough to/learn. . : 75), the marriage of tongues between Freda Peach and Toto Caelo (Freda Caelo) bears a fruitless death. 33 DIANNE CHISHOLM the lesbian phallon Reading litclit is not reading for the phallus. Fallon’s ‘cunning lingua’ contests any criticism which claims the erotic dominion of the Lacanian phallus and does so without making any phallic counter-claim. Like Judith Butler, the progenitor of the ‘lesbian phallus’ (1993), Fallon signals a desire for which there is no anatomical referent or (fixed) imaginary morphology.
