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Linda Williams - Hard Core
Linda Williams, Hard Core, U of California Press, 1989.
Why is pornography regarded as a dangerous and suppressive matter for somebody, and why is it thought as a site of liberation, or at least a site of struggle for freedom? How can it be at once oppressive and emancipatory? In what condition pornography works for the… »
David Harvey - Spaces of Hope
David Harvey, Spaces of Hope, U of California Press, 2000.
We have dealt with the body (subjectivity and citizenship) as something to be captured and marked up in the network of diverse forces on the social surface as well as in the intimate depth. How to understand this body and where to locate its position is… »
Elspeth Probyn - Outside Belongings
Elspeth Probyn, Outside Belongings, Routledge, 1996.
What is the ‘outside belongings’? What does Probyn try to describe with the notion? How do the ‘outside’ and the ‘belongings’ comes together and why? To begin with, instead of identity politics, Probyn defines her study of body and desire as the “sociology of the skin” (5) in which the… »
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