Bad Girls and Dirty Pictures: The Challenge to Reclaim FeminismFor well over a decade, half-baked analysis and phony science have been used by some feminists to side-track the women's movement into puritanical campaigns against sexual material and imaginative sexual exploration.Many feminists would say that this widely publicised version of feminism is itself sexist, and that the increasingly vocal anti-pornography campaigns are founded on theoretical dead-ends that have allowed feminists to deviate drastically from the basic goals of women's liberation.Bad Girls & Dirty Pictures puts these anti-sex, anti-porn arguments under the microscope of a more thorough and considered feminist analysis. It examines the flaws in the research that purports to prove the harm of pornography and warns against the continuing use of censorship by politicians and the moral right, as well as exposing the dangers of anti-porn feminist arguments.Contributions from a wide range of women, including sex workers and academics, remind us that pornography does not have a special place in our oppression, and that censorship must still be seen as dangerous enemy of women. Bad Girls & Dirty Pictures is a much-needed antidote to falsehoods, shabby thinking, and patronising sexism that have fuelled anti-pornography campaigns and misled the women's movement. |
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Contents
The Primarolo Bill | 41 |
the Case | 57 |
a New Look | 88 |
The Small Matter of Children | 105 |
Believing the Worst | 126 |
The Antisexism Campaign Invites you | 139 |
Notes and References | 157 |
Recommended Reading | 180 |
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| Title | Bad Girls and Dirty Pictures: The Challenge to Reclaim Feminism |
| Editors | Alison Assiter, Avedon Carol |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Pluto Press, 1993 |
| ISBN | 0745305245, 9780745305240 |
| Length | 185 pages |
| Subjects | › Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory Social Science / Pornography |
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