By Diana E. H. Russell
"Making Violence horny" chronicles women's resistance to pornography during the last 20 years. It does this in a suite of feminist articles, together with stories by means of victims/survivors of pornography that jointly make a powerful case for the view that pornography (as distinctive from erotica) motives damage to ladies, together with acts of violence. the quantity is equipped into 4 elements, the 1st of which supplies shiny and relocating own bills of the way women's lives were broken by means of pornography. half provides an outline of the current prestige of pornography in our society, in addition to the raging debate over pornography and censorship. half 3 info a number of attention-grabbing and demanding reviews at the results of pornography, in addition to evaluations of a few of the main influential non-feminist researchers. The concluding half then describes activities, either funny and grave, that feminists have hired of their struggle opposed to pornography. many of the participants are: Andrea Dworkin, Patricia Hill Collins, Catharine MacKinnon, Gloria Steinem and John Stoltenberg. "Making Violence horny: Feminist perspectives on Pornography" will attract scholars and teachers of women's reviews and sociology, political activists, public officers, social scientists, criminal and doctors - those that ponder pornography loose speech, and people who of it as obscene, and those that contemplate it a kind of discrimination opposed to girls. Women's reviews lecturers may still locate it a great addition to their required analyzing lists, and people operating opposed to sexual violence might take pleasure in it as a first-rate, updated, and accomplished resource and suggestion.
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Our dialogue has resulted in our generating a new definition of what I refer to as pornography and he calls erotomisogyny. It is a rare treat to have such a rich exchange about concepts that are important in my work. Finally, I want to thank all the contributors whose fine work is included in this volume, and to apologize to those authors whose articles I had to exclude because of my very tiresome habit of producing manuscripts that are much longer than my contracts permit. Last, but not least, I am grateful to Sarah Biondello, my editor at Teachers College Press, for the careful and professional job she has done as she has shepherded my manuscript through its different phases.
Erotica refers to sexually suggestive or arousing material that is free of sexism, racism, and homophobia, and respectful of all human beings and animals portrayed. This definition takes into account that humans are not the only subject matter of erotica. For example, I remember seeing a short award-winning erotic movie on the peeling of an orange. The shapes and coloring of flowers or hills can render them erotic. Many people find Georgia O'Keefe's paintings erotic. But erotica can also include overtly or explicitly sexual material.
I am very grateful to Renate Klein for her interest in publishing this book, and for her enthusiastic belief in its importance when so many other publishers shied away from its flagrantly anti-pornography stance. I am indebted to many people who have helped by reading and commenting on one or more of my chapters in this volume: Joan Baiter, Robert Brannon, James Check, Nikki Craft, Candida Ellis, Marny Hall, Angela Harraway, Dorchen Leidholdt, Anna Livia, Catharine MacKinnon, Sharon O'Connell, Suzanne Popkin, Wendy Powell, Jeanne Quint, Kris Wood, and Barbara Yoder.