Bad Girls Dirty Pictures

The Challenge to Reclaim Feminism

By: Alison Assiter, Avedon Carol

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Paperback | 20 May 1993

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For well over a decade, half-baked analysis and phony science have been used by some feminists to side-track the women's movement into puritanical campaigns against sexual material and imaginative sexual exploration.

Many feminists would say that this widely publicised version of feminism is itself sexist, and that the increasingly vocal anti-pornography campaigns are founded on theoretical dead-ends that have allowed feminists to deviate drastically from the basic goals of women's liberation.

Bad Girls & Dirty Pictures puts these anti-sex, anti-porn arguments under the microscope of a more thorough and considered feminist analysis. It examines the flaws in the research that purports to prove the harm of pornography and warns against the continuing use of censorship by politicians and the moral right, as well as exposing the dangers of anti-porn feminist arguments.

Contributions from a wide range of women, including sex workers and academics, remind us that pornography does not have a special place in our oppression, and that censorship must still be seen as dangerous enemy of women. Bad Girls & Dirty Pictures is a much-needed antidote to falsehoods, shabby thinking, and patronising sexism that have fuelled anti-pornography campaigns and misled the women's movement.

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Issues & Processes Feminism & Feminist Theory Ethical Issues & Debates Ethical Issues of Censorship Ethical Issues of Pornography & Obscenity

Preface
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
Misguided, Dangerous and Wrong: an Analysis of Anti-Pornography Politics	p. 18
The Primarolo Bill	p. 41
The First Amendment	p. 44
Changing Perceptions in the Feminist Debate	p. 45
Mystery and Imagination: the Case of Pornography Effects Studies	p. 57
Essentially Sex: a New Look	p. 88
The Small Matter of Children	p. 105
Sex On My Mind	p. 112
Snuff: Believing the Worst	p. 126
Fear of Pornography	p. 131
The Anti-sexism Campaign Invites you to Fight Sexism, not Sex	p. 139
The Wages of Anti-censorship Campaigning	p. 146
Conclusion	p. 151
Notes and References	p. 157
Recommended Reading	p. 180
Index	p. 181
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