I’ve been exchanging a few Twitters with Rachel Kaye from Footsteps in the Dark e-zine and we were briefly discussing the porn wars of the ‘80s. I mentioned Andrea Dworkin as a good starting point to try to understand what feminism at the time was standing for (i.e. staunch anti porn stances). She then asked if I had any specific recommendations and since this would be too long for a 140 characters Twitter post, I thought I could make a quick list of links here (which will double as a reference for me as well).
So, without further ado, a list of some Dworkin related material and her strong anti porn positions:
- Why Men Like Pornography & Prostitution So Much (mp3 file) Keynote Speech at International Trafficking Conference, 1989.
- Andrea Dworkin’s Attorney General’s Commission Testimony (mp3 file) on Pornography and Prostitution
- Prostitution and Male Supremacy speech (text) She delivered this speech at a symposium entitled “Prostitution: From Academia to Activism,” sponsored by the Michican Journal of Gender and Law at the University of Michigan Law School, October 31, 1992
- Pornography Happens to Women (text) Dworkin delivered this speech at a conference entitled “Speech, Equality and Harm: Feminist Legal Perspectives on Pornography and Hate Propaganda” at the University of Chicago Law School March 6, 1993.
- A woman writer and pornography (text) an Afterword to both the British and German editions of her book Pornography: Men Possessing Women.
- Intercourse on Google Books. One of her main books and a fundamental text to understand the so call “porn wars” of the 80’s.
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