Pornography: women, violence & civil liberties

This book is not a diatribe against eroticism or a moral crusade to stamp out sex. Rather, it is an attack on the international industry in pornography which, in abusing and degrading women desensitizes people to the routine discrimination and violence that its opponents claim it engenders. Includin...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford u.a. Oxford Univ. Press 1992
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Zusammenfassung:This book is not a diatribe against eroticism or a moral crusade to stamp out sex. Rather, it is an attack on the international industry in pornography which, in abusing and degrading women desensitizes people to the routine discrimination and violence that its opponents claim it engenders. Including contributions by Andrea Dworkin, Corinne Sweet, and Michael Moorcock, these challenging, uncompromising, and passionate essays examine such topics as the ineffectiveness of the Obscene Publications Act, the need for legislation against pornography without censorship to enable victims of pornography-related harm to seek redress and an equivalent to the Race Relations Act to permit the prosecution of cases of incitement to sexual hatred and violence, the different types of pornographic material, and the possible links between pornography and rape, child abuse, and discrimination.
Beschreibung:IX, 645 S.
ISBN:0198252919
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