Battling Pornography - The American Feminist Anti-Pornography Movement, 1976-1986

Informationen zum Autor Carolyn Bronstein is Associate Professor of Media Studies in the College of Communication at DePaul University. Her research investigates questions of media representation and social responsibility, with an emphasis on gender, and her work has been published in such journals as Violence against Women, Camera Obscura and Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. She is co-editor of Responsible Advocacy: Ethics in Public Relations (2006). Klappentext The rise and fall of the American feminist anti-pornography movement! discovering its origins in 1970s political and cultural conditions. Zusammenfassung This book analyzes the rise and fall of the American feminist anti-pornography movement! discovering its origins in the late 1960s and 1970s. Battling Pornography offers a fascinating account of movement dynamics and the contributions of leading American feminists as it explains why mediated sexual violence became an urgent concern. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Seeds of discontent: the failed promise of the sexual revolution for women; 2. Male violence and the critique of heterosexuality: the influence of radical feminism on the anti-pornography movement; 3. Have you seen Deep Throat yet?: the growth of the commercial sex industry in 1970s America; 4. 'I'm black and blue from the Rolling Stones and I love it!': WAVAW and the campaign against media violence; 5. Something inside me just went 'click': women against violence in pornography and media and the transition to an anti-pornography movement; 6. Growing pains: the emergence of Women Against Pornography and new directions for the feminist anti-pornography movement; 7. Porn tours: tensions and triumphs for WAP; 8. The new lay of the land: WAP assumes leadership of the movement and faces challenges from within and without; 9. Anti-pornography comes undone: the rise of the feminist pro-sex countermovement; Conclusion: porn is here to stay: the feminist anti-pornography movement in the 1980s and beyond....

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• Authors: Carolyn Bronstein, Carolyn (Depaul University Bronstein, Carolyn B. Bronstein, Bronstein Carolyn
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2011
• EAN: 9780521879927
• ISBN: 978-0-521-87992-7
• No. of pages: 376
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, HISTORY / Women, Feminism & feminist theory, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Gender studies: women, Feminism and feminist theory, c 1970 to c 1979, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Gender studies: women and girls, c 1970 to c 1980, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, Ethical issues and debates, Ethical Issues: Pornography & Obscenity, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality