Pornography

Women, Violence, and Civil Liberties

Author: Catherine Itzin
ISBN: 9780198257554

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 El

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publish Date: 1992

Subjects: History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Political Science / Civil Rights, Social Science / Women's Studies, Social Science / Pornography

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Sex Work)