Pornography and Difference

by Berkeley Kaite

Book Overview

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?"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025320979X
• ISBN13: 9780253209795
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher