英文摘要 |
As Rae Langton has famously argued, relying heavily on J. L. Austin’s How to Do Things with Words, pornography silences women and causes women to be illocutionarily disabled in some sexual contexts so that they are unable to refuse sex by saying‘no’. Call this view the Silencing thesis. Daniel Jacobson thinks that the Silencing thesis must be wrong because pornography will not cause women to be illocutionarily disabled if we follow P. F. Strawson’s speech act theory. In this paper, I defend the Silencing thesis. I will argue that, following Strawson’s speech act theory, pornography will also silence women. Nevertheless, I will argue that women can get rid of illocutionary disablement easily if we follow Strawson’s speech act theory. |