PORNOGRAPHY: WOMEN, VIOLENCE, AND CIVIL LIBERTIES by Catherine Itzin (Editor) ( 9780198257554 )

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PORNOGRAPHY: WOMEN, VIOLENCE, AND CIVIL LIBERTIES

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Catherine Itzin (Editor)

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

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1 July, 1993

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654

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The group of respected writers who have contributed to this volume hold two beliefs in common: a passionate opposition to censorship and a vehement conviction that, until pornography is eradicated, women's status in society can never be equal to men's. The book contains arguments for legislation which would make enable civil action to be taken against the industry for inciting sexual violence and hatred; analyses of pornography; and interviews with people who havebeen the victims of pornography.

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This book is not a diatribe against eroticism or a moral crusade to stamp out sex. Rather, it is an attack on the international industry in pornography which, in abusing and degrading women desensitizes people to the routine discrimination and violence that its opponents claim it engenders. Including contributions by Catherine A. Mackinnon, Michael Moorcock, Andrea Dworkin, and Ray Wyre, these challenging, uncompromising, and passionate essays examine such topics as the different types of pornographic material, the possible links between pornography and rape, child abuse, and discrimination, the ineffectiveness of the Obscene Publications Act, and the need for legislation against pornography without censorship: to enable victims of pornography-related harm to seek redress and for an equivalent to the Race Relations Act to permit the prosecution of cases of incitement to sexual hatred and violence. Contributors: Peter Baker, Deborah Cameron, James V. P. Check, Andrea Dworkin, Michele Elliott, Aminatta Forna, Elizabeth Frazer, H. Patricia Hynes, I-Spy Productions, Catherine Itzin, Susanne Kappeler, Liz Kelly, Catharine A. MacKinnon, Michael Moorcock, Janice Raymond, Diana E. H.Russell, John Stoltenberg, Corinne Sweet, Tim Tate, James Weaver, and Ray Wyre.

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