Women's Studies 2283F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Andrea Dworkin, Aurora Snow, Belle Knox
11 Feb 2018
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Erotic novels published in france beginning in the mid-1600s. Earliest surviving pornographic image was from 1846: depicting a rather solemn man gingerly inserting his penis into the vagina of an equally solemn and middle-aged woman (j slade 2006) 1896: the film le coucher de la marie released (http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=y0dua3b4g_q) 1980s-1990s: popularity of private screening via vhs and dvdd. Mid 1990s-present: proliferation and use of pornography on the internet. Three major philosophical/political feminist positions on pornography (mid-1970s- Present) anti-porn feminists ( radical feminists) anti-censorship feminists (freedom of speech paramount) sex-positive/pro-porn (porn can be liberatory for women: a lot of mainstream feminists would talk about pornography this way. Questions: are dworkin"s arguments against pornography effective, pornography: it means the graphic depiction of women as vile whores (200) Self-identified lesbian life partner for thirty years with a self-identified gay man. Published pornography: men possessing women in 1981. * did not say that all heterosexual sex is a form of rape.
