SOC 2070 Study Guide - Christina Hoff Sommers, Feminists Fighting Pornography, Wendy Mcelroy

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2070
• Professor: Norman Dubeski

Document Summary

A feminist overview of pornography, ending in a defense thereof. Page mellish of feminists fighting pornography has declared there s no feminists issue that isn t rooted in the porn problem . Mackinnon denies that porn consists of words and images, both which would be protected by the first amendment (she considers it in and of itself to be an act of sexual violence) Porn is viewed both the core issue of modern feminism and inherent violence, because it lies in radical feminist ideology, which christina hoff sommers calls gender. Gender feminism: looks at history and sees an uninterrupted oppression of women by men than spans cultural barriers (to them the only feasible explanation is that men and women are separate and antagonistic classes, whose interests necessarily conflict) Men construct women s sexuality through words and images of society, which the french philosopher foucalt called the texts of society.