the pornography civil rights hearings
Author: Catharine A. MacKinnon
Secondary Author: Andrea Dworkin
ISBN: 9780674445796
This book contains the oral testimony of victims of pornography, spoken on the record for the first time in history.Speaking at hearings on a groundbreaking antipornography civil rights law, women offer eloquent witness to the devastation pornography has caused in their lives. Supported by social science experts and authorities on rape, battery, and prostitution, discounted and opposed by free speech advocates and absolutists, their riveting testimony articulates the centrality of pornography to sexual abuse and inequity today.At issue in these hearings is a law conceived and drafted by Andrea Dworkin and Catharine A. MacKinnon that defines harm done through pornography as a legal injury of sex discrimination warranting civil redress. From the first set of hearings in Minneapolis in 1983 through those before the Massachusetts state legislature in 1992, the witnesses heard here expose the commonplace reality of denigration and sexual subordination due to pornography and refute the wides
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publish Date: 1997
Subjects: Obscenity (Law) - United States, Obscenity (Law)/ United States, Obscenity (Law), Pornography - Law and legislation - United States, Pornography/ Law and legislation/ United States, Pornography, Women - Legal status, laws, etc - United States, Women/ Legal status, laws, etc./ United States, Women, Law / General, Law / Civil Rights, Law / Gender & the Law, Social Science / Pornography, Political Science / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights
This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Sex Work)