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1. Bound and Gagged. Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America.By Laura Kipnischapter 2Clothes Make the Man

2. “You can freely obtain magazines showing naked men, naked women and any combination of them doing very acrobatic, unexpected, or sadomasochistic things to each other, but if one of the men is wearing a garter belt, apparently purveyors are subject to prosecution” (Kipnis 1999, 67).

3. Topic: distinction between art and pornography Focus: transgression of female stereotypes and gender conventions in the construction of transvestite self-identityMethod:discourse analysis Target:photos from personals in transvestite magazines, art critiques of Cindy Sherman photographyGoal: question the categories of identity and “the expectations of a natural equivalence between sex and gender”

4. Is Anatomy a Destiny? “We in this nontrasngendered population generally don’t devote much thought to why we assume you can tell a person’s sex by looking at his or her clothes, or why there’s something that seems not quite right about a man in a beaded evening gown” (Kipnis 1999, 77-78). http://movies.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70230746&trkid=7203170&pt_row=-1&pt_rank=0&pt_location=WATCHNOW&pt_request_id=ec4c9308-8f02-4ddb-814c-8a2aa8b8aa75-130505#MovieId=70230746&EpisodeMovieId=702287181:40

5. - “What are the distinctions between pornographic culture and the rest of what we call culture?” (Kipnis 1999, 64) - “What impedes us from considering pornography as a mode of expressive culture?” (Kipnis 1999, 64) Diesel safe-for-work -porn viral video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m86z_480bqo

6. Construction of gender expectations.“What if we were to approach materials like the transvestite self-portraits with the same kinds of expectations that we bring to the museum or gallery…” (Kipnis 1999, 74).“To be female means to be malaise, forever fretting that the world at large is handing down caustic judgments about your clothes or your figure; the combine sense of being on display and being found wanting seems to constitute the everyday trauma of womanhood. Even worse is the possibility of not being found sexually desirable by all. It’s a fascinating bit of cultural datum that regardless of biological sex, femininity and insecurity are so joined at the hip” (Kipnis 1999, 71).

7. Bound and Gagged. Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America.By Laura Kipnischapter 3Life in the Fat Lane

8. Topic: perception of fat in American cultureFocus: pornography as defiance of all societal norms and social controlsMethod: discourse analysisTarget: TV representations , survey data, magazines, pornGoal: challenge what it means to be pornographic in today’s society; fatness as a way to question normalcy

9. Defining normalcy through defiance “The culture’s anxiety about fat is endless, as is its hypocrisy. […] liking fat in current American culture makes you a “fetishist” whose sexuality is, by definition, “pornographic”(Kipnis 1999, 120). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdVfjP1EOpU8:24

10. “Our intense wish for fat’s absence is just what ensures its cultural omnipresence” (Kipnis 1999, 93).Fat porn’s mission is to bring fat out of the closet and deliver it up for public viewing. […] Displaying fat at all is socially objectionable; to be fat in public is to be a problem, a subject for endless commentary and jokes” (Kipnis 1999, 114-115).“…liking fat in current American culture makes you a “fetishist” whose sexuality is, by definition, “pornographic” (Kipnis 1999, 120).

11. Why is society scared of fat?“…the phobia of fat and the phobia of the poor are heavily cross-coded, […] perhaps the fear of an out-of-control body is not unrelated to the fear of out-of-control masses with their voracious demands and insatiable appetites – not just for food, but for social resources and entitlement programs” (Kipnis 1999, 101).“Fat is what our culture […] doesn’t want to look at. Pornography, in response, puts it on view. Fat pornography commemorates bodies that defy social norms,, it solicits an erotic identification with bodies that are unresponsive to social control – with voracious, demanding, improper, non-upwardly mobile, socially transgressive bodies” (Kipnis 1999, 121).