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Andrea Dworkin; Melissa Farley; ... (Dworkin wrote that the magazine "in both text and pictures promotes both rape and child ... In 1983, Dworkin published Right-Wing ...
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.
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 ...
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]
It was being published by 1983 [3] or 1984 [57] and continued until at least 1989. [57] The newsletter carried news reports related to pornography generally, such as on assaults, responses, finances, politics, and legislation.
When Dworkin testified before the Meese Commission in 1986, she said that 65 to 75 percent of women in prostitution and hard-core pornography had been victims of incest or child sexual abuse. [4] Andrea Dworkin's activism against pornography during the 1980s brought her to national attention in the United States. [5]
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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 fo