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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.
Indianapolis enacted an ordinance drafted by Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin [2] in 1984 defining "pornography" as a practice that discriminates against women. "Pornography" under the ordinance was "the graphic sexually explicit subordination of women, whether in pictures or in words, that also includes one or more of the following:
FFP also supported the anti-pornography civil rights ordinance supported by Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon. [23] [17] It did not support anti-obscenity laws, because, in FFP's view, they did not address the harm of porn. [24]
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]
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The first such ordinance was passed by the city council in Minneapolis in 1983. MacKinnon and Dworkin took the tactic of framing pornography as a civil rights issue, arguing that showing pornography constituted sex discrimination against women. The sex-positive movement response to this argument was that legislation against pornography violates ...
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.