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- Title
"Why Take the Photo if You Didn't Want It Online?": Agency, Transformation, and Nonconsensual Pornography.
- Authors
Velez, Meghan
- Abstract
This article analyzes nonconsensual pornography, the form of image-based sexual abuse colloquially known as "revenge porn," through a consideration of agency and circulation in visual rhetoric as well as in the broader context of discourse on sexual assault and harassment. It argues that responses to nonconsensual pornography continue to blame women whose photographs are circulated online without their consent and, in doing so, reinforce a double bind of victimhood and agency. Because these victim-blaming responses fail to account for the difference between consenting to a photograph's production and its appearance online, I argue for an understanding of nonconsensual pornography as an issue of circulation, wherein agency is produced as people, images, texts, and technologies interact.
- Subjects
REVENGE porn; SEXUAL assault; SEXUAL abuse victims; PHOTOGRAPHY of the nude; INTERNET pornography
- Publication
Women's Studies in Communication, 2019, Vol 42, Issue 4, p452
- ISSN
0749-1409
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/07491409.2019.1676350