Pornography: Women, Violence, and Civil Liberties (Paperback, New Ed)

This study is not written as a diatribe against eroticism or a moral crusade to stamp out sex. It is intended as an attack, rather, on a multi-billion pound international industry that, it argues, systematically abuses and degrades women, an industry whose product is at the root of cases of routine discrimination and horrific violence. Many writers, both women and men, have contributed to this collection. Each has their own view, but they all hold two beliefs in common: opposition to censorship and the conviction that until pornography is eradicated, women's status in society can never be equal to men's. They argue that the regulation of pornography under the Obscene Publications Act is intentionally ineffective, permitting the mass-marketing of women's genitals and anuses, and the sale of rape and sexual assault as "entertainment" for men, but censoring art, literature and homosexuality. Many of the contributors argue instead for sex discrimination legislation to enable civil actions against the pornography industry where pornography could be proved to have caused harm, or for legislation like the Race Relations Act where pornography could be shown to have incited sexual hatred an

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2001
First published:	August 1993
Editors:	Catherine Itzin (Research Fellow)
Dimensions:	216 x 163 x 38mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	654
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-825755-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Ethical issues & debates > Pornography & obscenity
LSN:	0-19-825755-4
Barcode:	9780198257554

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