"I found this a fascinating book: wide-ranging, readable." ―Alison Jaggar
Bell shows how the flesh-and-blood female body engaged in sexual interaction for payment has no inherent meaning and is signified differently in different cultures or discourses. The author contends that modernity has produced "the prostitute" as the other within the categorial other: woman.

Reading, Writing, and Rewriting the Prostitute Body

Politics & Social Sciences

Bell, Shannon

Philosophy

Indiana University Press

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Bad Attitude/s on Trial is a critical analysis of pornography in the context of contemporary Canada. The notion that pornography both reflects sexual domination and 'victimizes' women has recently found expression in law in the landmark Canadian Supreme Court decision of R. v. Butler (1992). Many feminists  embrace this new law as progressive, but in the post-Butler years, straight, mainstream pornography is still flourishing, while sexual representations that challenge conventional notions of sexuality, such as those centering on gay and lesbian sex and s/m sex, are the focus of censorship. It is the censorship of sexual others that the authors critique from a legal, cultural, gay, and philosophical standpoint.Lise Gotell examines the intervention of the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) in the Butler decision and provides an overview of socio-legal debates on pornography and censorship. Brenda Cossman examines the Butler decision itself and challenges the dominant reading of this case as a feminist victory. Becki Ross critically examines the expert testimony she delivered in defense of Bad Attitude, an American lesbian sex magazine seized by police from Glad Day Bookshop in Toronto in 1992. She details the difficulties she encountered in explicating and contextualizing the specificities, nuances, and complexities of lesbian s/m fantasy in a court of law. In the final chapter, Shannon Bell advances a conception of pornography that is not distinguishable from philosophy, using philosophy to make pornography.Bad Attitude/s on Trial provides a new debate on pornography and feminism. It will be of particular interest to students of both women's, and gay and lesbian issues, but will also be relevant for scholars of law, political science, and philosophy, as well as for anyone interested in a different, provocative view of the Butler decision.

Bad Attitude/s on Trial: Pornography, Feminism, and the Butler Decision

Gotell, Lise

Cossman, Brenda

Social Sciences

University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division

Bad Attitude(s) on Trial is a critical analysis of pornography in the context of contemporary Canada. The notion that pornography both reflects sexual domination and 'victimizes' women has recently found expression in law in the landmark Canadian Supreme Court decision of R. v. Butler (1992). Many feminists embrace this new law as progressive, but in the post-Butler years, straight, mainstream pornography is still flourishing, while sexual representations that challenge conventional notions of sexuality, such as those centering on gay and lesbian sex and s/m sex, are the focus of censorship. It is the censorship of sexual others that the authors critique from a legal, cultural, gay, and philosophical standpoint.
 Lise Gotell examines the intervention of the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) in the Butler decision and provides an overview of socio-legal debates on pornography and censorship. Brenda Cossman examines the Butler decision itself and challenges the dominant reading of this case as a feminist victory. Becki Ross critically examines the expert testimony she delivered in defense of Bad Attitude, an American lesbian sex magazine seized by police from Glad Day Bookshop in Toronto in 1992. She details the difficulties she encountered in explicating and contextualizing the specificities, nuances, and complexities of lesbian s/m fantasy in a court of law. In the final chapter, Shannon Bell advances a conception of pornography that is not distinguishable from philosophy, using philosophy to make pornography.
 Bad Attitude(s) on Trial provides a new debate on pornography and feminism. It will be of particular interest to students of both women's, and gay and lesbian issues, but will also be relevant for scholars of law, political science, and philosophy, as well as for anyone interested in a different, provocative view of the Butler decision.

Bad Attitude(s) on Trial: Pornography, Feminism, and the Butler Decision

Ross, Becki

University of Toronto Press

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you went looking for vampires? What if you secretly believed they existed?Dylan decides to go on a vacation of a lifetime in order to find herself. She begins in Romania, contemplating the existence of vampires and quickly realizes that she was wrong. Once she ends up in Florence, however, she is confronted with an immortal, Nico. She must be marked if she wants to live because she learned the truth of vampires. Nico catches her and her heart by surprise. The Mortal One is a whirlwind romance amidst vampire politics. Dylan must be marked for her safety, yet she is trying to be claimed by another vampire, thus making her time in Florence very complicated for her. She tests the bounds of her relationship with a vampire and tries to create a life for herself as the mortal one.The main setting of the book is Florence, Italy, where Dylan is in love with the history of the city.

The Mortal One

Romance

Vampires

Shannon Bell

The companion cookbook to The Mortal One Series, featuring entrees, desserts, and drinks that Dylan had on her adventures throughout Italy, Paris, Berlin, and Scotland. The cookbook is packed with recipes featuring Italian food, German food, Scottish food, and French food. You will find such recipes as Flammkuchen, Hunter's Chicken, and Rabbit as well as Chocolate Souffle, Apple Strudel, Chocolate Chip Cookies, and More. Fully illustrated with easy to follow recipes.

I'm Mortal...Feed Me!: The Mortal One Series Companion Cookbook

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Regional & International

Dylan is now dealing with being the mortal one and her feelings for both Nico and Olivier. There are zombies in Paris, two vampires vying for her attention, and she's trying to make it out with her heart and dignity intact.

Immortality Stolen (The Mortal One Series)

Subversive Itinerary investigates the theoretical evolution of the influential political theorist Gad Horowitz, as well as the historical impact of his ideas on Canadian life and letters. Bringing together dynamic new works by both established and emerging scholars, along with three new articles by Horowitz himself, this volume examines the concepts he developed and extends his approach beyond the current historical moment.
The book includes a history of Horowitz’s engagements as a public intellectual through appraisals of his early, mid, and late-career contributions, from the sixties to the present day. Along the way, the contributors present innovative new work in Canadian political thought, continental theory, Jewish philosophy, Buddhism, and radical general semantics. Subversive Itinerary demonstrates how Horowitz’s itinerary delivers invaluable tools for understanding issues of critical importance today.

Subversive Itinerary: The Thought of Gad Horowitz

Kulchyski, Peter

Politics & Government

Bad Attitude(s) on Trial: Pornography, Feminism, and the Butler Decision (The Canada 150 Collection)

Nonfiction. Political Science & Theory. Women's Studies. FAST FEMINISM is a new-old feminism grounded in politics, performance and philosophy. It is in close proximity to postfeminisms of the poststructuralist variety--third-wave feminism, queer feminism, cyberfeminism and feminism 3.0. While FAST FEMINISM operates in proximity to other feminisms, its "natural" home is in queer theory. Queer gets its meaning and its politics from its oppositional relationship to hegemonic norms. To queer something is to disrupt it, to put it under scrutiny and to attempt to change it. FAST FEMINISM takes the hypermasculine speed of Paul Virilio and makes it feminist. FAST FEMINISM is the bastard offspring and the happy accident of speed theory.

Fast Feminism

Autonomedia

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Reading, Writing, and Rewriting the Prostitute Body

Reading, Writing, and Rewriting the Prostitute Body

Bad Attitude/s on Trial: Pornography, Feminism, and the Butler Decision

Bad Attitude(s) on Trial: Pornography, Feminism, and the Butler Decision

The Mortal One

I'm Mortal...Feed Me!: The Mortal One Series Companion Cookbook

Immortality Stolen (The Mortal One Series)

Subversive Itinerary: The Thought of Gad Horowitz

Bad Attitude(s) on Trial: Pornography, Feminism, and the Butler Decision (The Canada 150 Collection)

Fast Feminism