Looking Backward at Eighteenth-Century Pornography

On Tuesday, Feb. 25th, from 5:30 -7:00 pm in SAC 400, Dr. Kathleen Lubey, St. John's University, will share archival evidence of alterations made by nineteenth-century editors to eighteenth-century pornography. These abridgements suppress early pornography's unruly feminist voices in an attempt to streamline the field of sexuality toward penetrative heterosex. With pornography's dissenting character restored to view, we can see that the genre--in the disorganized, experimental domain of eighteenth-century narrative--deeply challenged masculine sexual right. Does pornography across history retain any of this dissenting character?

This event is co-sponsored by the Gender and Women's Studies Program.

Dr. Kathleen Lubey