...Ann Barr Snitow 1979 STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women is Different Ann Barr Snitow I Last year 109 million...

... by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc. 2022 queer archives pornography photography media East Germany East Berlin in the 1970s. Men meet for sex, pose for erotic snapshots commemorating the occasion, and share these and other images with each other. These black-and-white photos...

... overlooked is the contest over physical and cultural space, as well as the conversation about democratizing public space, that Women Against Pornography initiated when they marched on Times Square in 1979. By imagining heteropatriarchy as a regime, and antipornography feminist strategies as repertoires...

...João Florêncio; Ben Miller Abstract Despite being a widely consumed genre of visual culture, pornography remains a touchy subject in contemporary queer historiography. Queer archives overflow with it, but queer histories don’t. Historically associated with low culture and distrusted by value...

... and leadership in discussions of homophile history.3 Many scholars comment on homophile criticisms of bar culture, gender transgression, public sex, pornography, sex work, and sexual promiscuity, but few question the extent to which the movement was dominated by respectable sexual politics. Even those...

... required by law) on their creativity. Among other things, I have seen a movie recreating nineteenth-century romantic friendships, a play about pornography, a skit on prostitution in Mexico, and a demonstration of genital pierc- ing. In the play about pornography, for example, the students...

... Williams has argued, hard-core (straight) pornog- raphy is a frenzy of the visible that desires to make sexuality into visuality.23 The two men in the foreground seem to be set up to mimic visible ejaculation, known as the money shot in the industry. This shot epitomizes pornography’s desire to make...

... by Women Against Violence in Pornography and Media (WAVPM), marched through San Francisco’s pornography-heavy North Beach dis- trict. Although activists cite the tactical use of whistles and street patrols as the most prominent links between early gay and feminist antiviolence movements, per- haps...

... about the sources and their own reactions to them when it feels like there is no “right” or “wrong” answer. This seems to work especially well with pornography or erotica. At first, we start off discussing these materials in broad, almost abstract ways—we talk, in particular, about the fact that we...

...,” Leigh attended an antipornography conference sponsored by Women Against Violence in Pornography and Media held in San Francisco in November 1978. 2 She felt ambivalent about the political objectives of the conference. She was sympathetic to attacking violent representation in the media...

..., Claire Bond Potter’s essay examines the efforts of Women Against Pornography (WAP) activists in the 1980s to reclaim New York City’s Times Square as a safe space. Potter shows us how activists created what she defines, build- ing on the work of Charles Tilly, as “feminist repertoires...

... This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. archives sex sexual science visual studies pornography Today, a growing number of scholars are placing images and visual practices at the center of critical historical inquiries...

... and reflect the conflicting politics of representing sex held by this archives’ intergenera- tional public. For antiporn feminists, the problem of pornography was precisely the mechanical reproduction of images, rather than merely the acts depicted in porn. As a compressed form designed to create small...

... hierar- chies. We will also explore the history of various kinds of sexual “knowl- edge” and technology (sexual science, birth control, fertility policy, and pornography), in order to a gain broad understanding of the increasing importance of sex and sexuality within twentieth-century North...

... of the American Historical Reuiezu‘s precipitous surrender of the disci- pline to the forces of popular culture. The offense can be found in the April 1994 issue, where Valerie Steele’s lead book review of Lynn Hunt’s The Invention of Pornography concludes with an apho- rism borrowed from Angela Carter...

..., Cervulle | French Homonormativity 179 “La question immigrée après 68,” Plein Droit, no. 53 – 54 (2002), www.gisti.org/doc/ plei n- d roit /5 3 – 5 4 /quest ion.ht m l. 7. On the influence of this trope on contemporary French gay pornography, see Maxime Cervulle, “De...

... of the first manifestations of cultural feminism which Echols analyzes is the "Fourth World Manifesto," written by a Detroit collective in 1973. The feminist campaign against pornography of the late 1970s represented cul- tural feminism in its fullest flower. But Echols does not give tk same kind...

... out a great deal of what I think is important about how people actually relate to each ~ther For historians of women, the Reagan agenda, internal bat- tles over pornography, the renewed abortion-rights struggle, and the Sears case have made ”theorizing about theory” any- thing...

..., an inner circle of the Anthropological Society of London (formed in 1863) whose members published homoerotically charged works that functioned as both science and pornography.55 Flagellation featured in much of the writing of Cannibal Club members, as it did in the pornographic literature...

...; comparative welfare states; and sexuality, business, and consumption. She is currently completing a manuscript on sexual consumer culture in West Germany before the legalization of pornography. Karin Lukas is a legal researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights in Vienna, Austria. She...