| Description |
210 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Varda Burstyn -- Political precedents and moral crusades : women, sex and the state / Varda Burstyn -- Second thoughts / Myrna Kostash -- Pornography : image and reality / Sara Diamond -- A capital idea : gendering in the mass media / Lisa Steele -- Censorship and law reform : will changing the laws mean a change for the better? / Lynn King -- Women and images : toward a feminist analysis of censorship / Anna Gronau -- Thrills, chills, and the "lesbian threat" or, The media, the state, and women's sexuality / Mariana Valverde and Lorna Weir -- Retrenchment versus transformation : the politics of the antipornography movement / Ann Snitow -- Feminist debates and civil liberties / June Callwood -- False promises : feminist antipornography legislation in the U.S. / Lisa Duggan, Nan Hunter and Carole S. Vance -- Beyond despair : positive strategies / Varda Burstyn -- Appendix 1. Making sense of the research on pornography / Thelma McCormack -- Appendix 2. Excerpts from the Minneapolis ordinance |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 201-205 |
| Subject |
Censorship.
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Feminism.
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Pornography -- Social aspects.
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| Author |
Burstyn, Varda.
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| LC no. |
85146745 |
| ISBN |
0888944551 (paperback) |
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