TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2005//
TI  - Exposing the fallacies of anti-porn feminism
JO  - Feminist theory
A1  - Shrage, Laurie
SP  - 45
EP  - 65
VL  - 6
IS  - 1
N2  - This paper examines an issue at the centre of feminist debates about pornography and sex work, and that is whether these practices reduce women to sex objects. I question the assumption that the expression of sexual desire is unique in its power to degrade and dehumanize persons. I show that this assumption underlies Catharine MacKinnon's attack on pornography by considering MacKinnon's intellectual debt to the philosopher Immanuel Kant. I then examine recent discussions of sexual objectification in the philosophical literature and argue that MacKinnon's adaptation of Kant has flaws comparable to Kant's original account of sexual desire.<p /> 
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SN  - 1464-7001
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464700105050226
ID  - ref1
ER  -