International Exposure demonstrates the wealth of desires woven into the fabric of European history: desires about empire and nation, about self and other, about plenty and dearth. By documenting the diverse meanings of pornography, senior scholars from across disciplines show the ways that sexuality became central to the individual, to the nation, and to the transnational character of modern society.

The ten essays in the volume engage a rich array of topics, including obscenity in the German states, censorship in France's Third Republic, "she-male" internet porn, the rise of incestuous longings in England, the place of the Hungarian video revolution in the global market, and the politics of pornography in Russia. Taken together, the essays illustrate the latest approaches to content, readership, form, and delivery in modern European pornography.

A substantial discussion of the broad history and state of the field complements the ten in-depth case studies that examine a wide range of sources from literature to magazines, video to the internet. By tackling the highbrow and lowdown of the pornographic form, this volume lays the groundwork for the next surge of studies in the field.

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Issues and Problems in the History of Pornography by Lisa Z. Sigel
Wanderers, Entertainers, and Seducers: Making Sense of Obscenity Law in the German States, 1830—1851 by Sarah Leonard
Censorship in Republican Times: Censorship and Pornographic Novels Located in L'Enfer de la Bibliotheque Nationale, 1800—1900 Annie Stora-Lamarre
Anti-Abolition Writes Obscenity: The English Vice, Transatlantic Slavery, and England's Obscene Print Culture by Colette Colligan
The Rise of the Overly Affectionate Family: Incestuous Pornography and Displaced Desire among the Edwardian Middle Class by Lisa Z. Sigel
Old Wine in New Bottles? Literary Pornography in Twentieth-Century France by John Phillips
A Perfectly British Business: Stagnation, Continuities, and Change on the Top Shelf by Clarissa Smith
Global Traffic in Pornography: The Hungarian Example Katalin Szoverfy Milter and Joseph W. Slade
Ideologies of the Second Coming in the Ukrainian Postcolonial Playground by Maryna Romanets
Stripping the Nation Bare: Russian Pornography and the Insistence on Meaning by Eliot Borenstein
Walking on the Wild Side: Shemale Internet Pornography by John Phillips

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