Word: rapes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TAKE Back the Night Week '89, a Radcliffe Union of Students-sponsored series of events designed to highlight the problems of violence against women in society, last week featured a controversial--though disturbing--discussion of the relationship between pornography and rape...
...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...
...terms of campus activities, the issue of security--and the recent rape--is directly related to the national mobilization around abortion rights, Zellweger and other activists...