This vibrant collection expands the parameters of the feminist debate on pornography. In an effort to move away from the divisive frameworks in feminist disputes over pornography, this volume seeks to understand what pornography means to those who consume it, fight against it, and work within it. By opening up a space for divergent points of view to address the complexity of sexual material, this book seeks to forge solidarity among academics, activists, and sex workers from diverse social and political contexts. Feminism and Pornography explores a wide range of contentious issues, including how the meaning of pornography is shaped by changing historical and political realities; the role law should play, if any, in the sex industry; whether union organizing can change the working conditions in the sex industry; and how sexually explicit literature, videos, art, and music can promote sexual freedom. Contributors include such influential writers as Alice Walker, Audre Lorde, bell hooks, Catherine MacKinnon, and Andrea Dworkin.

This collection of essays seeks to expand the parameters of the debate on pornography. In an effort to move away from a divisive framework, the book explores what pornography means to those who consume it, fight against it, work within it, and to those engaged in changing its meaning.

Drucilla Cornell is Professor of Law, Political Science, and Women's Studies at Rutgers University.

Introduction, Dorchen Leidholdt

Anti-Pornography Feminism

Against the Male Flood: Censorship, Pornography and Equality, Andrea Dworkin

Pornography and Grief, Andrea Dworkin

Pornography and Rape: A Causal Model, Diana Russell

Defamation and Discrimination, Catharine A. MacKinnon

Pornography: An Exchange-Comment/Reply, Ronald Dworkin and Catharine A. MacKinnon

The Roar on the other Side of Silence, Catharine A. MacKinnon

Suffering and Speech, Andrea Dworkin

Questioning Moralism

Not a Moral issue, Catharine A. MacKinnon

The Mirror of Pornography, Wendy Brown

The Obscenity Prosecution of 2 Live Crew, Kimberle Crenshaw

On the Question of Pornography and Sexual Violence: Moving Beyond Cause and Effect, Deborah Cameron and Elizabeth Frazer

The Politics of Postmodern Feminism: lessons from the Anti-Porn Campaign, Mary Jo Frug

It's Merely Designed for Sexual Arousal: Interrogating the Indefensibility of Lesbian Smut, Becki Ross

Avoiding Constitutional Depression: Bad Attitudes and the Fate of Butler, Anne Scales

On Prostitution: Two Broadsheets and a Statement, Italian Manifesto

A Historical and Cultural Analysis of Sexuality, Imperialism and Modernity

Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity, 1500-1800, Lynn Hunt

The Colonial Harem: Images of a Suberoticism, Malek Alloula

Erotic Autonomy as a Politics of Decolonization: An Anatomy of Feminist and State Practice in the Bahamas Tourist Industry, Jacqui Alexander

Looking for Women's Rights in the Rainbow: Pornography, Censorship and the 'New' South Africa, Lliane Loots

We are Women Too: Prostitution After the Cuban Revolution, Victoria Ortiz

Breaking Open the Ground of Sex and Gender

Seducing Women into a 'Lifestyle and Vaginal Fisting': Lesbian Sex Gets Virtually Dangerous, Amber Hollibaugh

Just Looking for Trouble: Robert Maplethorpe and Fantasies About Race, Kobena Mercer

Good Girls look the Other Way, Bell Hooks

The Force of Fantasy: Feminism, Maplethorpe and Discursive Excess, Judith Butler

Love Me, Master, Love Me, Son, Rey Chow

Erotic Hope, Feminine Sexuality and the Beginnings of Sexual Freedom

Polemical Preface: Pornography in the Service of Women, Angela Carter

Porn in the USA, Candida Royalle

Pornography's Temptation, Drucilla Cornell

Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power, Audre Lorde

Lovers and Workers: Screening the Body in Post-Communist Hungarian Cinema, Catherine Portuges

What We're Rolling Around in Bed With, Amber Hollibaugh and Cherrie Moraga

Porn, Alice Walker

Little Hungarian Pornography, Peter Esterhazy

El Salvador, Mission Statement, Flora Di Peidra

Prostitution in Latin America and the Caribbean, Zooraida Ramirez Rodriguez

From Research to Action, Siriporn Skrobanek, Nattaya Boonpakdi and Chutima Janthakeero

Editing Pornography, Isabell Barker

Index