Sex Dolls, Robot Caregivers, and More Facsimile Females
What distinguishes humanity from artificial beings? What do constructed creatures tell us about ourselves? From sex dolls to Siri, talking Barbies to the Bride of Frankenstein, Artificial Women explores the ways in which today's simulated females-both real and fictional-reflect and expose our own ideas about gender and female identity. Join Julie ......
Sex Dolls, Robot Caregivers, and More Facsimile Females
What distinguishes humanity from artificial beings? What do constructed creatures tell us about ourselves? From sex dolls to Siri, talking Barbies to the Bride of Frankenstein, Artificial Women explores the ways in which today's simulated females-both real and fictional-reflect and expose our own ideas about gender and female identity. Join Julie ......
While Detroit has been a major focus in urban history, little has been written on censorship in the very city that--due to shifting legalities, the urban crisis, and racial tensions--profoundly shaped media suppression in the United States. By examining censorship in film and literature, Indecent Detroit recounts the evolution of media control ......
While Detroit has been a major focus in urban history, little has been written on censorship in the very city that--due to shifting legalities, the urban crisis, and racial tensions--profoundly shaped media suppression in the United States. By examining censorship in film and literature, Indecent Detroit recounts the evolution of media control ......
Cultivating a Sacramental Imagination in an Age of Pornography
In an era in which the internet has made pornography readily accessible, Seeing with the Eyes of the Heart offers a theological critique of pornography and retrieves from the Christian tradition an alternative visual culture. This visual culture is constituted by both the character of the images we behold and the manner in which we see. ......
A Taste for Brown Sugar boldly takes on representations of black women's sexuality in the porn industry. It is based on Mireille Miller-Young's extensive archival research and her interviews with dozens of women who have worked in the adult entertainment industry since the 1980s. The women share their thoughts about desire and eroticism, black ......
Does pornography have harmful effects on individuals? What are these effects and how should society deal with them? The authors of this volume attempt to answer these and other important questions by placing pornography within the broader context of theories of fundamental human nature. Their approach reveals a systematic interweaving of social science, morality and the law from three different perspectives: conservative/moralistic, liberal and feminist. The book will be an invaluable contribution to current research on pornography and obscenity.
