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In Harm's Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings
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This book contains the oral testimony of victims of pornography, spoken on the record for the first time in history.
Speaking at hearings on a groundbreaking antipornography civil rights law, women offer eloquent witness to the devastation pornography has caused in their lives. Supported by social science experts and authorities on rape, battery, and prostitutio ...more
Speaking at hearings on a groundbreaking antipornography civil rights law, women offer eloquent witness to the devastation pornography has caused in their lives. Supported by social science experts and authorities on rape, battery, and prostitutio ...more
Paperback, 508 pages
Published
February 15th 1998
by Harvard University Press
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I got it, even way back then, how MacKinnon would and could argue that pornography was the central means by which men achieved inequality to women, by making the matter merely sexual consumption. However, I didn't buy it then or now. I think it's the economy that is the central way we keep sexism and male dominance, not commercialized erotica. I read this working in Civil Rights doing mandatory trainings for K-12 schools after the '92 decision by the Supremes that gave both compulsory and puniti
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Catharine A. MacKinnon is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan and the James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (long-term). She holds a BA from Smith College, a JD from Yale Law School, and a PhD in political science from Yale, and specializes in sex equality issues under international and domestic (including comparative and constitutional) l
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