{"product_id":"bound-and-gagged-9780822323433","title":"Bound and Gagged","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresents and challenges the most basic assumptions about America's relationship with pornography and questions what the calls to eliminate it are really attempting to protect.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBound and Gagged\u003c\/i\u003e will prove intellectually productive for generations of scholars and thinkers. As always, Kipnis's insistence on articulating concerns of class and gender makes her work vitually unique withing U.S. cultural studies—and she is doubtless among the most engaging writers in the academy today.”—Lauren Berlant, author \u003ci\u003eof The Queen of America Goes to Washington City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A tour de force polemic in defense of the foibles of human fantasy.”—Linda Williams, author of \u003ci\u003eHard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the ‘Frenzy of the Visible’\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eBound and Gagged\u003c\/i\u003e, Laura Kipnis demonstrates that she is the Marx and Freud of porn.”—Constance Penley, author of\u003ci\u003e NASA\/Trek: Popular Science and Sex in America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Laura Kipnis is the rarest of authors. She looks at porn and makes you see it through new eyes. \u003ci\u003eBound and Gagged\u003c\/i\u003e is fearless, unflinching and funny.”—James Peterson, Senior Editor, \u003ci\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Laura Kipnis’s \u003ci\u003eBound and Gagged\u003c\/i\u003e is a singularly important contribution to contemporary cultural criticism. [It] should be required reading.”—Michael Bérubé, author \u003ci\u003eof Public Access: Literary Theory and American Cultural Politics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“. . . as clear a take as one could expect on the intertwining of sexual fantasy and reality. . . . rendered in language that generates a seductiveness of its own.”—Robert Christgau, [unidentified review]\u003cp\u003e“[[Kipnis] blends the themes of Freudian analysis, consumer capitalism and societal taboo into a piece of sharp, insightful, sometimes disturbing social commentary.”—Richard Bernstein, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“A wonderfully insightful book about the elitism that lurks behind antiporn sentiment. By bringing class into the picture, \u003ci\u003eBound and Gagged\u003c\/i\u003e moves beyond the predictable, repetitive argument among feminists. . .”—Leora Tanenbaum, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e“[Kipnis] provides a succinct, thoughtful, and lively case for porn as a significant contemporary cultural form.”—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBound and Gagged\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkably rational book about a subject that usually sparks remarkably irrational responses.”—Joy Press, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Few readers. . . will come away from \u003ci\u003eBound and Gagged\u003c\/i\u003e with their perceptions about porn intact. . . .This original and spirited paean to the secret power of pornography makes a stimulating bedside primer—albeit one that’s more likely to lead to sedition than seduction.”—Autumn Stephens, \u003ci\u003ethe San Francisco Examiner \u0026amp; Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e“A wonderfully provocative examination of pornographic fantasies and their broader cultural meanings. . . . \u003ci\u003eBound and Gagged\u003c\/i\u003e pokes and prods at a number of America’s most tender spots—examining everything from transvestite personal ads and ‘fat fetishism’ to the class-ridden politics of disgust.” —David Futrelle, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Reader\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e[Kipnis] is a lively and engaging writer who argues. . . that we would be better off simply thinking of pornography as just another form of science fiction.”—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface \u003cbr\u003e One: Fantasy in America: The United States v. Daniel Thomas DePew \u003cbr\u003e Two: Clothes Make the Man \u003cbr\u003e Three: Life in the Fat Lane \u003cbr\u003e Four: Disgust and Desire: Hustler Magazine \u003cbr\u003e Five: How to Look at Pornography \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406023336279,"sku":"9780822323433","price":18.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/bound-and-gagged-9780822323433","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}