Conversational Exercitives and the Force of Pornography

Philosophy and Public Affairs 31 (2):155-189 (2003)
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This paper criticizes Langton's speech act account of MacKinnon's claim about (the subordinating force of) pornography and offers a different account of how speech might enact harmful norms and thus constitute harm.

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10.1111/j.1088-4963.2003.00155.x

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