Prostitution and Pornography : Philosophical Debate About the Sex Industry / Edited by Jessica Spector

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Prostitution and Pornography : Philosophical Debate About the Sex Industry / Edited by Jessica Spector

Contents Contributors, ix Acknowledgments, xiii Introduction: Sex, Money, and Philosophy, t JESSICA SPECTOR PART I Critiques of the Sex Industry 1. Duet: Prostitution, Racism, and Feminist Discourse, / 7 VEDNITA CARTER AND EVELINA GIOBBE 2. Stripping as a System of Prostitution, 40 CHRISTINE STARK 3. What's Wrong with Prostitution?, 5-0 CAROLE PATEMA N 4. Equality and Speech, So CATHARINE MAC KINN O N 5. Split at the Root: Prostitution and Feminist Discourses of Law Reform, / 06 MARGARET A. BALDWIN PART II Liberalism and Prostitution 6. Porn Stars, Radical Feminists, Cops and Outlaw Whores: The Battle Between Feminist Theory and Reality, Free Speech and Free Spirits, 149 NORMA JEAN ALMODOVAR 7. "Whether from Reason or Prejudice": Taking Money for Bodily Services, ijj MARTHA NUSSBAUM viii Contents 8. Contractarians and Feminists Debate Prostitution, 209 SIBYL SCHWARZENBACH 9. Prostitution and the Case for Decriminalization, 240 LAURIE SHRAGE PART III Liberalism and Pornography 10. Private Acts versus Public Art: Where Prostitution Ends and Pornography Begins, 249 THERESA A. REED AKA"DARKLADY" 11. Freedom, Equality, Pornography, 258 JOSHUA COHEN 12. Women and Pornography, 296 RONALD DWORKIN 13. Desire and Disgust: Hustler Magazine, 310 LAURA KIPNIS PART IV The Limits of Liberalism 14. The Name of the Pose: A Sex Worker by Any Other Name?, 341 TRACY QUAN 15. Thinking Outside the Box: Men in the Sex Industry, 349 JULIAN MARLOWE 16. Prostitution and Sexual Autonomy: Making Sense of the Prohibition of Prostitution, 358 SCOTT A. ANDERSON 17. Markets in Women's Sexual Labor, 394 DEBRASATZ 18. Obscene Division: Feminist Liberal Assessments of Prostitution Versus Feminist Liberal Defenses of Pornography, JESSICA SPECTOR Index, PPN: 262460718 Titel: Prostitution and pornography : philosophical debate about the sex industry / edited by Jessica Spector. - Stanford, Calif : Stanford University Press, 2006 ISBN: 978-0-8047-4937-4clothalk. paper; 978-0-8047-4938-1pbk.alk. paper Bibliographischer Datensatz im SWB-Verbund.

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