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Projecting Pornography, Enacting (In)Equality, And Mexican Modernity, Ageeth Sluis
Projecting Pornography, Enacting (In)Equality, And Mexican Modernity, Ageeth Sluis
Ageeth Sluis
If pornography proves a problematic avenue within women’s bid for sexual liberation and equality today, how then has this historically been constructed? In an attempt to determine the role of pornography within articulations of women’s sexual (in)equality, I use a banned pornographic magazine published in 1930s Mexico as the starting point for a broader examination of the relationships between female sexual visibility and modernity, and sexual normativity and the state. Employing the Foucaultian methodology of genealogy, I trace popular representations of female sexuality as well as civic discourse on sexual prohibitions through space (from the USA and Europe to Mexico) …