{"product_id":"bound-and-gagged-pornography-and-the-politics-of-fantasy-in-america-paperback","title":"Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLaura Kipnis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a book that completely changes the terms of the pornography debate, Laura Kipnis challenges the position that porn perpetuates misogyny and sex crimes. First published in 1996, \u003ci\u003eBound and Gagged\u003c\/i\u003e opens with the chilling case of Daniel DePew, a man convicted--in the first computer bulletin board entrapment case--of conspiring to make a snuff film and sentenced to thirty-three years in prison for merely trading kinky fantasies with two undercover cops.\u003cbr\u003eUsing this textbook example of social hysteria as a springboard, Kipnis argues that criminalizing fantasy--even perverse and unacceptable fantasy--has dire social consequences. Exploring the entire spectrum of pornography, she declares that porn isn't just about gender and that fantasy doesn't necessarily constitute intent. She reveals Larry Flynt's \u003ci\u003eHustler\u003c\/i\u003e to be one of the most politically outspoken and class-antagonistic magazine in the country and shows how fetishes such as fat admiration challenge our aesthetic prejudices and socially sanctioned disgust. Kipnis demonstrates that the porn industry--whose multibillion-dollar annual revenues rival those of the three major television networks combined--know precisely how to tap into our culture's deepest anxieties and desires, and that this knowledge, more than all the naked bodies, is what guarantees its vast popularity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBound and Gagged\u003c\/i\u003e challenges our most basic assumptions about America's relationship with pornography and questions what the calls to eliminate it are really attempting to protect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Bound and Gagged,\" Laura Kipnis demonstrates that she is the Marx and Freud of porn.\"--Constance Penley, author of\" NASA\/Trek: Popular Science and Sex in America\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaura Kipnis is Professor of Radio-TV-Film at Northwestern University. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts for filmmaking and media criticism. She is the author \u003ci\u003eof Ecstasy Unlimited: On Sex, Capital, Gender, and Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.25 x 5.52 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 23, 1998\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130349883527,"sku":"9780822323433","price":43.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/1ef90da347a6d8638397bb5290688de7.webp?v=1732610132","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/bound-and-gagged-pornography-and-the-politics-of-fantasy-in-america-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}