Pornography and Difference
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Initial publish date
- Nov 1995
- Category
- Gender Studies, Pornography
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780253209795
- Publish Date
- Nov 1995
- List Price
- $33.00
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Description
This study of pornographic magazine photographs—softcore, hardcore, transsexual/transvestite—analyzes the visual code of these images. It engages questions about masculinity and masculine sexuality such as "Is there a necessary relation between difference and phallic desire?" "Can the masculine subject imagine otherness?" "Is there a will-to-asceticism in this (masculine) sexual surrender to indifferentiation?"
About the author
Berkeley Kaite is Associate Professor in the Department of English at McGill University. She has written on pornographic magazines, the iconography of Jacqueline Onassis, the photographs of Sally Mann, among others.