"That Classic Combination: Sex and Violence" by cupidsbow
I've just posted the second essay in my women/writing series:
I wasn't planning on the second essay in this series to focus, once again, on Joanna Russ's feminist writing. However, in response to the events of Strikethrough07, there's been a discussion about fanfiction texts which explore the dark sides of sexuality, particularly through the themes of incest, pedophilia and rape. As I've just finished reading an essay by Russ in which she discusses exactly these issues, but with relation to feminist concerns about pornography rather than fanfiction, I thought it worth taking a look at what she has to say, especially as Russ takes a decidedly different approach to that of the binary split fandom has so far tended to take ("responsibility" versus "artistic freedom," to shorthand it).
That Classic Combination: Sex and Violence
I wasn't planning on the second essay in this series to focus, once again, on Joanna Russ's feminist writing. However, in response to the events of Strikethrough07, there's been a discussion about fanfiction texts which explore the dark sides of sexuality, particularly through the themes of incest, pedophilia and rape. As I've just finished reading an essay by Russ in which she discusses exactly these issues, but with relation to feminist concerns about pornography rather than fanfiction, I thought it worth taking a look at what she has to say, especially as Russ takes a decidedly different approach to that of the binary split fandom has so far tended to take ("responsibility" versus "artistic freedom," to shorthand it).
That Classic Combination: Sex and Violence