Beyond Speech

Mari Mikkola is Tutorial Fellow at Somerville College and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford. She works mainly on feminist philosophy, and specifically on feminist metaphysics, gender, and pornography. In addition, she has research interests in social ontology, broadly conceived.

• Chapter 1: Feminist philosophy and pornography: The past, present, and future Hilkje Hänel and Mari MikkolaPart I: Speech Act Approaches to PornographyChapter 2: Is pornography like the law? Rae LangtonChapter 3: On multiple types of silencing Mary Kate McGowanChapter 4: Be what I say: Authority vs. power in pornography Louise AntonyPart II: Pornography and Social OntologyChapter 5: What are women for: Pornography and social ontology Katharine JenkinsChapter 6: Pornographic artifacts: Maker's intentions-model Mari MikkolaPart III: Objectification as Harm of PornographyChapter 7: Treating Pornography as a woman and women's objectification Lina Papadaki Chapter 8: Getting "naked" in the colonial/modern gender systems: A preliminary trans feminist analysis of pornography Talia Mae Bettcher Chapter 9: Race and pornography: The dilemma of the (un)desirable Robin ZhengPart IV: Feminist Pornography: An Oxymoron?Chapter 10: Falling in lust: Sexiness, Feminism, and Pornography Hans MaesChapter 11: In/egalitarian pornography: A simplistic view of pornography Petra van BrabandtChapter 12: Feminist pornography A.W. Eaton

The essays present inspired pairings between feminist theory, trans theory, aesthetics, and metaphysics in ways that advance the literature in promising new directions.