Word: dworkin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...take a darker view: porn is a conscious assault against women, comparable to antiblack and anti-Semitic literature. "Pornography is virulent propaganda against women," says Author Susan Brownmiller. "It promotes a climate in which the ideology of rape is not only tolerated but encouraged." In her book Pornography, Andrea Dworkin calls violence "the prime component of male identity" and says porn is an expression of men's abusive control of women...
...Indianapolis case may spell the end of attempts to attack porn as sex discrimination, a tactic that in recent years had the unusual effect of allying some left-leaning feminists and conservative moralists. The idea was developed by Law Professor Catharine MacKinnon, a visiting scholar at Stanford, and Andrea Dworkin, a New York feminist writer (Pornography: Men Possessing Women). They contend that by enforcing a subordinate image of women, porn promotes violence against them and hinders their chances of achieving equal opportunity. In the past the court has permitted restrictions on free speech when a "compelling" government objective is involved...
...problem facing the Justices was that laws aimed at the content of pornography inevitably restrict expression, and the repellent and the worthwhile can be so closely braided that no amount of linguistic hairsplitting can untangle them. Drafted with the assistance of MacKinnon and Dworkin, the Indianapolis ordinance targeted materials that showed women in bondage or that treated pain and humiliation as sexual turn-ons. But more sweepingly, it forbade showing women "as sexual objects for domination, conquest, violation, exploitation, possession or use." A federal appeals court was concerned that the ordinance might encompass everything from the ! Iliad to Barbarella...
...defending her bill, Dworkin said the First Amendment was written by white men, most of whom owned women as chattel and Black slaves. She said they saw the First Amendment as a vehicle to protect their power over the people they owned...
...bill of wrongs when it protects tyranny, when it protects pimps. Right now the First Amendment is used to empower pimps. The more speech they have, the more speech we have. I can't agree," Dworkin said...