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In 1983, Dworkin published Right ... and sexual penetration may by its very nature doom women to inferiority ... Andrea Dworkin by Jeremy Mark Robinson, first ...
The Anti-pornography Civil Rights Ordinance (also known as the Dworkin–MacKinnon Anti-pornography Civil Rights Ordinance or Dworkin–MacKinnon Ordinance) is a name for several proposed local ordinances in the United States and that was closely associated with the anti-pornography radical feminists Andrea Dworkin and Catharine A. MacKinnon.
In New Zealand, groups calling themselves "Women Against Pornography" were active during the eighties and early nineties (1983–1995). [42] A Wellington group was formed in 1983 and an Auckland group in 1984. Their work focussed on depictions of sexual exploitation and sexual violence in film, video and art. [43]
She was also prominent in anti-censorship feminist action late last century, taking on the likes of Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon over the legal status and cultural meaning of sexual ...
MacKinnon and Dworkin defined pornography as "the graphic sexually explicit subordination of women through pictures or words". [14] According to Dworkin, the original definition of the word pornography was "the graphic depiction of whores." [15] [16] Whore is a term that has historically been used to describe sex workers.
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Dworkin analyzes (and extensively cites examples drawn from) contemporary and historical pornography as an industry that hates and dehumanizes women. Dworkin argues that the industry is implicated in violence against women, both in its production (through the abuse of the women that are used to star in it) and in the social consequences of its consumption by encouraging men to eroticize the ...
While Oz isn't burning bras or quoting Andrea Dworkin, the show offers feminist perspectives from his rival, his mother and his lover that strengthen the entire story. 2. Sofia Falcone Is a Fully ...