Pornography and speech acts: Catharine MacKinnon’s perspective

Knowing the importance that debates about the pornographic issue have for historical and contemporary feminisms, we take the work Only Words (1993), by Catharine MacKinnon, as focus. Through interpretative analysis we seek to reconstruct the author’s argument about the way pornography operates and w...

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Autor: Bercht, Gabriela
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)
Repositorio:Revista Estudos Feministas
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:periodicos.ufsc.br:article/77282
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ref/article/view/77282
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:pornografia
feminismos
atos de fala
Catharine MacKinnon
pornografía
actos de habla
pornography
feminisms
speech acts
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Sumario:Knowing the importance that debates about the pornographic issue have for historical and contemporary feminisms, we take the work Only Words (1993), by Catharine MacKinnon, as focus. Through interpretative analysis we seek to reconstruct the author’s argument about the way pornography operates and what its consequences are for women’s experiences in the real world.In our analysis, we emphasize the importance that John Austin’s theory of speech acts has for the constitution of the author’s thought. Finally, we seek to demonstrate that in some ways Austin’s theory seems to guarantee the internal coherence of MacKinnon’s ideas.