Caught looking: feminism, pornography and censorship. (book reviews)
Nation, The, February, 1987 by Margaronis, Maria
CAUGHT LOOKING: Feminism, Pornography and Censorship.
Pornography's promisesare usually offered to men only. On the pages of Hustler and Tight Rubber you can always get what you want; but women are merely wanted, prisoners of the image. To some feminists, pornography is patriarchy's arrest warrant for the female sex, a license to harm that must be revoked at all costs.
Caught Looking, a beautiful, glossypicture book, is the best argument yet against that position. The texts, mostly reprinted from other sources, provide a thoughtful account of the feminist case for protecting--and encouraging--sexual or "deviant" speech, but it is the photographs that form the book's rebellious heart, enlisting pleasure and imagination in the struggle against fear....
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