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04250aam a2200529 i 4500 001 EA4F3A7E214711EEBC7340321FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230713010558 008 211115t20222022caua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2021055926 020 $a 1503611663 020 $a 9781503611665 020 $a 150363311X 020 $a 9781503633117 035 $a (OCoLC)1298713618 040 $a STF $b eng $e rda $c STF $d OCLCF $d BDX $d YDX $d UKMGB $d CDX $d DLC $d YUS $d XII $d MUU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR448.E75 $b L833 2022 082 00 $a 823.009/3538 $2 23/eng/20220216 100 1 $a Lubey, Kathleen, $d 1975- $e author. 245 10 $a What pornography knows : $b sex and social protest since the eighteenth century / $c Kathleen Lubey. 264 1 $a Stanford, California : $b Stanford University Press, $c [2022] 300 $a xix, 288 pages : $b illustrations (black and white) ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-274) and index. 505 0 $a Preface : pornography in the library -- Introduction : pornography without sex -- Genital parts : detachable properties in the eighteenth century -- Feminist speculations : penetration and protest in pornographic fiction -- The Victorian eighteenth century : publishing an erotics of inequity -- Uncoupling : pornography and feminism in the countercultural era -- Coda : a mindful pornography. 520 $a "What Pornography Knows offers a new history of pornography based on forgotten bawdy fiction of the eighteenth century, its nineteenth-century republication, and its appearance in 1960s paperbacks. Through close textual study, Lubey shows how these texts were edited across time to become what we think pornography is--a genre focused primarily on sex. Originally, they were far more variable, joining speculative philosophy and feminist theory to sexual description. Lubey's readings show that pornography always had a social consciousness--that it knew, long before anti-pornography feminists said it, that women and nonbinary people are disadvantaged by a society that grants sexual privilege to men. Rather than glorify this inequity, Lubey argues, the genre's central task has historically been to expose its artifice and envision social reform. Centering women's bodies, pornography refuses to divert its focus from genital action, forcing readers to connect sex with its social outcomes. At times inventing their own sexual anatomy and gender identity, at times having their bodies claimed and used by others, pornographic figures bring genitals to the fore, insisting they be justly treated rather than coldly transacted. Lubey offers a surprising take on a deeply misunderstood cultural form: pornography transforms sexual description into feminist commentary, she argues, revealing the genre's deep knowledge of how social inequities are perpetuated as well as plans for how to rectify them"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Erotic literature, English $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Erotic literature, English $x History. $x History. 650 0 $a English fiction $y 18th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Pornography $x History. $x History. 650 0 $a Feminism and literature $x History. 650 6 $a LitteÌrature eÌrotique anglaise $x Histoire et critique. 650 6 $a Roman anglais $y 18e sieÌcle $x Histoire et critique. 650 6 $a Pornographie $x Histoire. $x Histoire. 650 6 $a LitteÌrature eÌrotique anglaise $x Histoire. $x Histoire. 650 7 $a English fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00910817 650 7 $a Erotic literature, English. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00914815 650 7 $a Feminism and literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00922735 650 7 $a Pornography $x Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01071897 648 7 $a 1700-1799 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Lubey, Kathleen, 1975- $t What pornography knows. $d Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2022] $z 9781503633124 $w (OCoLC)1298714336 $w (OCoLC)1298714336 941 $a 1 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718100410.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EA4F3A7E214711EEBC7340321FECA4DB 994 $a 92 $b IOHInitiate Another SILO Locator Search