El cuerpo de María Magdalena: representaciones, pornografía y feminismo

Abstract

Pornography is one of the focal debates within feminist thinking throughout its different stages. Pornographic creation is one of the main areas in which it is more evident the commercialization of women’s bodies. Although pornography is not generally associated with religion, in Western Christianity both spheres have been intimately linked for centuries. In this Christianity-pornography convergence, the representations of biblical women have played an essential role and, among them, one of the most outstanding figures has been Mary Magdalene. This paper presents a diachronic analysis of the uses of Magdalene’s body as a pornographic object from the XVIth century to nowadays, paying special attention to the film Sacred Flesh (Nigel Wingrove, 2000), where there is a turn in the use of this figure.