CMST 2C03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Hyperreality, Postmodernity, Mcdonaldization

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: CMST 2C03
• Professor: Christine Quail

Document Summary

Radical feminism:butler: concerned with anti pornography campaigns and concerns about the effects of sex role stereotyping, catherine mackinnon and andrew dworkin actively worked together against the pornography industry claiming it violated the civil rights of women, pornography represents the masculine inflected ideology that women are prostitutes subject to mens sexual domination, degrading images of women are underpinned by the ideological implication that physical possession of the female is the natural right of the male, says that male violence is an outcome of pornography, anti porn campaign has been rejected by second and third wave feminists, van zoonen questions why pornography should be treated as a separate phenomenon , given the wider culture of seeing women as objects of the male gaze, dworkins argument is that it assumes that pornography in some way will lead to male sexual violence against women.