ABSTRACT
This chapter criticizes both hard, protectionist critiques, that women who display their bodies seductively are somehow “asking for” male attentions, and the naïve “capitalist feminist” defense, that if a woman wants to exploit her body on the internet for money, pleasure, or whatever, the fact that the resulting images are noxious from another feminist’s perspective is simply none of that feminist’s business. The position taken here is that what is needed is neither less freedom for women to express how they feel beautiful, nor simply ever-more intense and explicit versions of already objectified models of beauty, but rather and most urgently more room for forms of expression that problematize, comment on, and ultimately expand beyond that model.
