For Adult Users Only: The Dilemma of Violent Pornography

by Susan Gubar, Joan Hoff

"... sophisticated, provocative, and thoroughly documented.... Strongly recommended... " ―Choice "... a welcome addition to the literature on this contentious issue." ―Journal of Communication "This book does an excellent job of portraying the complexity of the legal and philosophical debates among women about the status and effects of pornography, and it is an important interdisciplinary scholarly contribution for that reason." ―Signs In an attempt to advance our society’s debate on pornography beyond the current political and legal stalemate, these essays examine explicit portrayals of violence in pornography from multidisciplinary history, literary criticism, religious studies, ethics, political science, film studies, law, and psychology.

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Susan D. Gubar (born November 30, 1944) is an American author and distinguished Professor Emerita of English and Women's Studies at Indiana University. She is best known for co-authoring, with Sandra M. Gilbert, a standard feminist text, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (1979) and a trilogy on women's writing in the 20th century.

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