PORNLAND - HOW PORN HAS HIJACKED OUR SEXUALITY

GAIL DINES - [flat-signed]; 'In Sisterhood - Gail Dines

ISBN 10: 0807044520 / ISBN 13: 9780807044520

Published by BEACON PRESS, BOSTON - USA, 2010

About this Item

Hand-Signed to the full title page, states: In Sisterhood - Gail Dines - Gail Dines (born 29 July 1958) is professor emerita of sociology and women's studies at Wheelock College in Boston, Massachusetts. - A radical feminist, Dines specializes in the study of pornography. Described in 2010 as the world's leading anti-pornography campaigner, which was the same year as this book was published. - Condition and Description of the book: The original dustjacket houses the book. It's in a great condition and has the price to inner front prelim intact. Black cloth spine and partial front and rear board houses silver gilt lettering which is in a great condition too. Red paper boards front and rear are clean and in a good order. Tightly bound to the inner page block. Grey endpages front and rear are clean. There are a few small soil marks you can see on the edge when the book is closed but other than this the 204 pages [including index], are in a clean and tightly bound condition. A good overall condition. - E N D - Thanks for looking and hope you want to buy. - Rapid dispatch [same day if possible, or as soon as].

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: PORNLAND - HOW PORN HAS HIJACKED OUR SEXUALITY
• Publisher: BEACON PRESS, BOSTON - USA
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807044520
• ISBN 13: 9780807044520
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: FIRST EDITION & FIRST PRINTING
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • MODERN FIRST EDITIONS
  • Collectable Children's Books

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Synopsis

Professor Gail Dines has written about and researched the porn industry for over two decades. She attends industry conferences, interviews producers and performers, and speaks to hundreds of men and women each year about their experience with porn. Students and educators describe her work as "life changing."

In Pornland—the culmination of her life's work—Dines takes an unflinching look at porn and its affect on our lives. Astonishingly, the average age of first viewing porn is now 11.5 years for boys, and with the advent of the Internet, it's no surprise that young people are consuming more porn than ever. But, as Dines shows, today's porn is strikingly different from yesterday's Playboy. As porn culture has become absorbed into pop culture, a new wave of entrepreneurs are creating porn that is even more hard-core, violent, sexist, and racist. To differentiate their products in a glutted market, producers have created profitable niche products—like teen sex, torture porn, and gonzo—in order to entice a generation of desensitized users.

Going from the backstreets to Wall Street, Dines traces the extensive money trail behind this multibillion-dollar industry—one that reaps more profits than the film and music industries combined. Like Big Tobacco—with its powerful lobbying groups and sophisticated business practices—porn companies don't simply sell products. Rather they influence legislators, partner with mainstream media, and develop new technologies like streaming video for cell phones. Proving that this assembly line of content is actually limiting our sexual freedom, Dines argues that porn's omnipresence has become a public health concern we can no longer ignore.

Going from the backstreets to Wall Street, Dines reveals how porn is affecting our lives and why its omnipresence is detrimental to our sexual freedom.

About the Author

Gail Dines is professor of sociology and women’s studies at Wheelock College. The author of two previous books and a regular commentator on TV and radio, Dines has been covered in Newsweek, Time, USA Today, the New York Times, Boston Globe, and Philadelphia Inquirer. She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.