Sexual solipsism : philosophical essays on pornography and objectification

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Title:

Sexual solipsism : philosophical essays on pornography and objectification

Author:

Langton, Rae, 1961-

ISBN:

9780199247066

9780199551453

Personal Author:

Langton, Rae, 1961-

Publication Information:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Physical Description:

xvii, 405 p. ; 25 cm.

Contents:

Speech acts and unspeakable acts -- Dangerous confusion? Response to Ronald Dworkin -- Freedom of illocution? Response to Daniel Jacobson / Rae Langton, Jennifer Hornsby -- Pornography's authority? Response to Leslie Green -- Pornography's divine command? Response to Judith Butler -- Whose right? Ronald Dworkin, women, and pornographers -- Equality and moralism: response to Ronald Dworkin -- Scorekeeping in a pornographic language game / Rae Langton, Caroline West -- Duty and desolation -- Autonomy: denial in objectification -- Projection and objectification -- Feminism in epistemology: exclusion and objectification -- Speaker's freedom and maker's knowledge -- Sexual solipsism -- Love and solipsism.

Subject Term:

Pornography -- Social aspects.

Women -- Social conditions.

Feminist theory.

Feminism.

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Summary

Rae Langton here draws together her ground-breaking work on pornography and objectification. On pornography she argues from uncontroversial liberal premises to the controversial feminist conclusions that pornography subordinates and silences women, and that women have rights against pornography. On objectification she begins with the traditional idea that objectification involves treating a person as a thing, but then shows that it is through a kind of self-fulfilling projection of beliefs and perceptions of women as subordinate that women are made subordinate and treated as things. These controversial essays in feminist philosophy will be stimulating reading for anyone interested in the status of women in society.