TY - JOUR AU - Grimshaw, Jean AB - Reviews 111 reported by Loretta Loach and Gill­ historically and individually vari­ ian Rodgerson, about S-M and les­ able pleasures of sex and porn. But in bian erotica and porn. Nor does it do doing so they arguably fail ad­ justice to variation and change in the equately to address the obverse of social and historical determinants of erotic pleasure and desire - its mis­ attitudes to sex: to the anti­ eries and discontents. Certainly liberation backlash in 1970s these cannot be resolved through England, for instance, that doing away with porn. Nor is it any prompted Kenneth Clark's differ­ help, however, to reject antiporn entiation of art from porn, here docu­ feminism out of hand without engag­ mented by Lynda Nead; or to 1920s ing further with the complexities of outrage at Mae West's Broadway women's sexual unease that it both no-frills rendering of working-class crudely over-simplifies yet also im­ sex, with which Marybeth Hamilton portantly expresses. ends Sex Exposed. She and the book's other con­ Janet Sayers tributors rescue for feminism the that are not only detailed and care­ Luce Irigaray: Philosophy ful, but combine philosophical acu­ in the Feminine men with a keen eye for the TI - Luce Irigaray: Philosophy in the Feminine JF - Feminist Review DO - 10.1057/fr.1992.55 DA - 1992-11-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/luce-irigaray-philosophy-in-the-feminine-VIToNQLBzC SP - 111 EP - 114 VL - 42 IS - 1 DP - DeepDyve ER -