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- Title
The Great War, Pornography, and the Transformation of Modern Male Subjectivity.
- Authors
Carolyn J. (Carolyn Janice) Dean
- Abstract
Examines the changes that took place in the criteria for pornography after World War I and the development of pornography as an indeterminate category, with particular reference to Britain, Germany, and France. In the 19th century pornography was defined as material that stimulated sexual sensations and antisocial acts, but this definition was altered after the Great War when conventional boundaries between the moral and immoral were destroyed by regarding male bodies as pornographic spectacles. The shift in the rhetoric of pornography changed the concept of rational subjectivity, and for many writers war was seen as an extension of sexuality. The work of Paul Englisch, Edmond Haraucourt, Marcello Fabri, André Lorulot, and George Anquetil illustrates how war was equated with sadomasochistic sexuality, the belief that war had transformed sexual desires, and the way in which women figured as symbols of war's sexual sadism, as well as the ways in which these writers sought to restore national integrity through their analyses.
- Publication
Modernism/Modernity, 1996, Vol 3, Issue 2, p59
- ISSN
1071-6068
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/mod.1996.0034