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?"