Skeggs, Bev and Kirkham, Pat. 1996. Pornographies, pleasures, pedagogies in UK/US. Jump Cut, 40, pp. 106-113. [Article]

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We are currently witnessing a significant paradigm shift in feminist discourses on pornography in the United Kingdom. There is a shift away from focusing on censorship and legislation to approaching in a less censorious way issues of visual representation, sexual excitement and sexual practice. Old orthodoxies have come under challenge and are being examined in print, seminars, conferences and undergraduate courses as well as in the practices of pornographic film and video making. Given that we actually know very little in historical, cultural or psychic terms about the origins, impulses, gendering or trajectories of individual or collective sexual desires, drives, fantasies and responses to explicitly sexual visual imagery, we need a full and open debate. But the issues are complex as well as highly charged. Many feminists have contradictory and confusing feelings on these issues.

Item Type:	Article
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Sociology
Dates:	Date Event March 1996 Published
Item ID:	13673
Date Deposited:	28 Sep 2015 10:44
Last Modified:	07 Jul 2017 12:47
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/13673

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