Word: wap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
ELLEN Willis, in an article entitled "Feminism, Moralism and Pornography," offers an important discussion of the issues raised by Dines-Levi. Her refutation of WAP's platform is based on the recognition that these arguments set back the discussion about violence against women rather than further needed social change...
Moreover, Willis argues, WAP's tactics confirm traditional and puritanical notions of womanhood that are in themselves degrading and disempowering to women...
...What we are protesting," said WAP Coordinator Barbara Mehrhof, "is not just Lolita but the whole concept of the 'Lolita syndrome': the sexualizing of little girls. It's the whole Brooke Shields phenomenon...