Bad Attitude(s) on Trial: Pornography, Feminism, and the Butler Decision

Shannon Bell; Brenda Cossman; Lise Gotell; Becki Ross

Published by University of Toronto Press 1997

Bad Attitude(s) on Trial

Pornography, Feminism, and the Butler Decision

Shannon Bell , Brenda Cossman , Lise Gotell and Becki Ross

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442671157

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About this book

Mainstream, or straight, pornography still flourishes, while those centering on gay and lesbian sex and s/m sex, are the focus of censorship. A critical analysis of pornography after the Supreme Court’s Butler (1992) decision.

Author / Editor information

Bell Shannon :

Shannon Bell is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at York University.

Cossman Brenda :

Brenda Cossman is Professor of Law at the University of Toronto, and taught at the Osgoode Hall Law School from 1988 to 1999.

Gotell Lise :

Lise Gotell is Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Atkinson College, York University.

Ross Becki :

Becki L. Ross is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and the Chair of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at the University of British Columbia.

Reviews

Drucilla Cornell, author of The Imaginary Domain:

'Bad Attitude/s pierces through the thick veil of hypocrisy surrounding the pornography debates in a lively and well-documented examination of the clashes between bodies and state power, detailing the vicissitudes of the pornography issue in a specifically national context. Rethinking the intersections of sexuality and nation via pornography, it should prove alluring to scholars, fans, ambivalent partisans and outraged citizens alike.'

Laura Kipnis, author of Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America:

'Bad Attitude/s pierces through the thick veil of hypocrisy surrounding the pornography debates in a lively and well-documented examination of the clashes between bodies and state power, detailing the vicissitudes of the pornography issue in a specifically national context. Rethinking the intersections of sexuality and nation via pornography, it should prove alluring to scholars, fans, ambivalent partisans and outraged citizens alike.'

Linda Williams, author of Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the Frenzy of the Visible and editor of the journal Film Quarterly:

'Bad Attitude/s pierces through the thick veil of hypocrisy surrounding the pornography debates in a lively and well-documented examination of the clashes between bodies and state power, detailing the vicissitudes of the pornography issue in a specifically national context. Rethinking the intersections of sexuality and nation via pornography, it should prove alluring to scholars, fans, ambivalent partisans and outraged citizens alike.'

Nathan M. Greenfield: