Word: levying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three rape rate is started by Penthouse and Playboy," Dines-Levi said. To combat such connections between pornography and violence, the Take Back the Night speaker implied that women should take militant action to prevent men from buying and viewing pornographic materials...
...exploiting the emotional impact of rape and sexual violence, Dines-Levi urged her audience to pursue tactics that contradict the fundamental values of the Women's Movement by censoring sexual freedom and repressing sexual expression...
RAPE is a feminist issue--and its occurrence and tacit social acceptance in our society are directly reflected in stereotypical images of women. But leaders of Women Against Pornography (WAP), such as Dines-Levi, do a disservice to the feminist movement's goals of severing the connections between male violence and female sexuality...
Tactics of censorship, violent retaliation and rhetorical hatred will not accomplish those ends, nor will they succeed in furthering the goals espoused by Take Back the Night. Rather, Dines-Levi and others risk alienating those women who have fought to liberate their own sexualities as a means of fighting that very same oppression...
Sexual freedom--the right of women to control their own bodies and create the terms in which their sexuality can be expressed--is basic to the issue of personal freedom in which the Women's Movement is grounded. To assert, as Dines-Levi did, that women are defined solely by their mass-produced and mass-marketed images is to suggest wrongly that women cannot make choices about their own bodies...