{"product_id":"9780896087767","title":"Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn our culture, porn makes the man. So argues Robert Jensen in \u003ci\u003eGetting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity\u003c\/i\u003e. Jensen’s treatise begins with a simple demand: “Be a man.” It ends with a defiant response: “I chose to struggle to be a human being.” The journey from masculinity to humanity is found in the candid and intelligent exploration of porn’s devastating role in defining masculinity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGetting Off\u003c\/i\u003e seamlessly blends personal anecdotes from Jensen’s years as a feminist anti-pornography activist with scholarly research. In his trademark conversational style, he shows how mainstream pornography reinforces social definitions of manhood and influences men’s attitudes about women and how to treat them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePornography is a thriving multi-billion-dollar industry; it drives the direction of emerging media technology. Pornography also makes for complicated politics. These days, anti-porn arguments are assumed to be “anti-sex” and thus a critical debate is silenced. This book breaks that silence. Alarming and thought-provoking, \u003ci\u003eGetting Off\u003c\/i\u003e asks tough, but crucial, questions about pornography, sex, manhood, and the way toward genuine social justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Jensen\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCitizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"South End Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47018510549232,"sku":"9780896087767","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780896087767_p0.jpg?v=1763860824","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780896087767","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}