Bad Attitude/S On Trial
Brenda Cossman; Shannon Bell; Lise Gotell; Becki Ross
Lise Gotell examines the intervention of the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) in the Butler decision and provides an overview of socio-legal debates on pornography and censorship. Brenda Cossman examines the Butler decision itself and challenges the dominant reading of this case as a feminist victory. Becki Ross critically examines the expert testimony she delivered in defense of Bad Attitude, an American lesbian sex magazine seized by police from Glad Day Bookshop in Toronto in 1992. She details the difficulties she encountered in explicating and contextualizing the specificities, nuances, and complexities of lesbian s/m fantasy in a court of law. In the final chapter, Shannon Bell advances a conception of pornography that is not distinguishable from philosophy, using philosophy to make pornography.
Bad Attitude(s) on Trial provides a new debate on pornography and feminism. It will be of particular interest to students of both women’s, and gay and lesbian issues, but will also be relevant for scholars of law, political science, and philosophy, as well as for anyone interested in a different, provocative view of the Butler decision.
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Details
ISBN | 9780802076434 |
Genre | LGBT Studies/Social Sciences; Law & Government |
Publication Date | 1997 |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Format | Trade Paperback |
No. of Pages | 273 |
Language | English |
Rating | NotRated |
Subject | Law |
BookID | 795 |