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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of British Columbia Press
ISBN-100774810777
ISBN-139780774810777
eBay Product ID (ePID)45412213
Product Key Features
Number of Pages296 Pages
Publication NameGay Male Pornography : an Issue of Sex Discrimination
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2005
SubjectDiscrimination, Pornography, Lgbt Studies / Gay Studies, Gender & the Law
TypeTextbook
AuthorChristopher N. Kendall
Subject AreaLaw, Social Science
SeriesLaw and Society Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight14.1 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Reviews"Christopher Kendall's extensively researched, bravely theorized, and brilliantly argued book spares no sentimentalities, suffers no cliches, pulls no punches. Equally strong in law and politics, his analysis is perceptive at every turn of the page. Most of all, this book is fearless--which is what will be needed to survive telling so much truth in the face of so many lies." --Catharine A. MacKinnon is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. She specializes in sex equality issues under constitutional and international law. GAY MALE PORNOGRAPHY. BY CHRISTOPHER KENDALL Christopher N. Kendall's Gay Male Pornography is a refreshingly candid and well-argued book that we should celebrate as an important contribution to the feminist literature on the toxic effects of masculinity. - Robert Jensen, University of Texas at Austin, Men and Masculinities, January 2006.
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal363.4/7/0866420971
Table Of ContentContents Acknowledgments Introduction: From Butler to Little Sisters: What Went Wrong with Gay Male Liberation? 1 Pornography as Inequality: A Perspective on Hate Speech and the Meaning of Sexism 2 Sex Equality and Homophobia 3 Sexualizing Masculinity, Normalizing Inequality: Gay Male Pornography Post-Butler 4 Abusing Real People: The "Actors'" Perspective 5 Gay Male Pornography and Violence: Partner Abuse and Rape 6 Gay Male Pornography: An Issue of Sex Discrimination 7 "Protecting" Gay Youth: Why Self-Loathing Is Not a Path to Safety 8 Controlling Pornographic Harm Post-Butler: Some Thoughts on Canada Customs, the Police, and Judicial Bias Conclusion Notes Bibliography Permissions Index
SynopsisUsing the 2000 Little Sisters v Customs Canada case as a springboard, Kendall argues that gay male pornography violates the legal right to sex equality, and that there is little to be gained from sexualized conformity., The 2000 case of Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. Customs Canada provided Canada's highest court with its first opportunity to consider whether the analysis set out in R. v. Butler - in which the Supreme Court identified pornography as an issue of sex discrimination - applies to pornography intended for a lesbian or gay male audience. The Court held that it did, finding that, like heterosexual pornography, same-sex pornography also violates the sex equality interests of all Canadians. Christopher Kendall supports this finding, arguing that gay male pornography reinforces those social attitudes that create systemic inequality on the basis of sex and sexual orientation - misogyny and homophobia alike - by sexually conditioning gay men to those attitudes and practices. The author contends that as a result of litigation efforts like those brought by lesbian and gay activists in the Little Sisters case, the notion of empowerment and the rejection of those values that daily result in all that is anti-gay have been replaced with a misguided community ethic and identity politic that encourages inequality. This is best exemplified in the gay male pornography defended in Little Sisters as "liberation" and "central to sexual freedom." Gay Male Pornography rejects the equality claims of gay male pro-pornography advocates and argues that there is little to be gained from sexualized conformity. To date, no one has taken the position that gay male pornography violates the legal right to sex equality. This book does that and, as such, it will be of value to scholars of law, sociology, and gender studies, as well as to all who have an interest in equality and justice., The 2000 case of Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. Customs Canada provided Canada's highest court with its first opportunity to consider whether the analysis set out in R. v. Butler - in which the Supreme Court identified pornography as an issue of sex discrimination - applies to pornography intended for a lesbian or gay male audience. The Court held that it did, finding that, like heterosexual pornography, same-sex pornography also violates the sex equality interests of all Canadians. Christopher Kendall supports this finding, arguing that gay male pornography reinforces those social attitudes that create systemic inequality on the basis of sex and sexual orientation - misogyny and homophobia alike - by sexually conditioning gay men to those attitudes and practices.
