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...weekend's flurry of verbal assaults, rude interruptions, angry personal statements, and emotional hyperbole, the audience at the MIT-Harvard sponsored Symposium on Women and Pornography managed to indulge occasionally in laughter, what some French feminists could even call "jouissance," gendered female. Politics after all, as guest speaker Catherine MacKinnon noted sarcastically, is a very sexy business...
...Politics and a leading anticensorship advocate, provoked strong teactions from the crowded audience. Moderator Susan Suleiman's attempt to restore order during the question and answer period was overridden by a Cantabrigian majority intent on using the session as a forum for debating next month's referendum on the MacKinnon-Dworkin anti-porn bill...
...question of pornography as cause or symptom becomes, in effect, the dividing line among feminist positions: a question of strategy. While MacKinnon supports direct legal action, critics such as Millet and journalist Marsha Pally, who also spoke at the symposium, favor what they consider to be a more longterm strategy of reforming cultural institutions...
Those who disagree with this approach--notably MacKinnon, a lawyer and professor of political science, and co-author of the MacKinnon-Dworkin bill--use the same evidence to argue that a critical causal tie exists between the image and the reality. Pornography's presence perpetuates pornographic minds and violent behavior, MacKinnon argues, relying on psycho-sociological studies...
...case of a rape victim in Minnesota who later learned that photos taken during the rape had been sold to pornographers. Millet's unfamiliarity with the incident and forms of legal redress available in such instances appeared to disappoint and frustrate many. The legalistic and practical tone of MacKinnon's forceful argument, in contrast, emphasizes the critical failure of current laws to provide any redress...