Here's the link to MaggieH's page with a list of antiporn books: https://againstpornography.org/books.html
I haven't read most of those, but Maggie probably has. I have read Robert Jensen's Getting Off: Pornorgaphy and the End of Masculinity and Against Pornography by Diana Russell and I recommend both.
Anti-Porn Bibliography?
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Re: Anti-Porn Bibliography?
by bluecoat28 » Fri Jan 04, 2008 5:23 am
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Re: Anti-Porn Bibliography?
by MaggieH » Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:15 am
bluecoat28 wrote:I haven't read most of those, but Maggie probably has.
Yeah, I have. They're great books. Go for these, Ariel! Take your pick! Thanks Bluecoat28 for posting the link to my (pro-)feminist booklist.
Also makes me think I forgot to include Catharine MacKinnon's Feminism Unmodified and Toward a Feminist Theory of the State in that list (as I hadn't read those 2 yet at the time I put up that booklist), but I'll add them both on sooner or later -- even though I know it's already a huge list (!) -- tell me about it...
I haven't read Making Sex Work by Mary Lucille Sullivan yet. But I'm thinking about ordering it and including it in my list sometime -- coz it seems to be a great book against the legalization of prostitution!
"The assumption that "most women are innately heterosexual'' stands as a theoretical and political stumbling block for many women. It remains a tenable assumption, partly because lesbian existence has been written out of history or catalogued under disease;. . . partly because to acknowledge that for women heterosexuality may not be a "preference" at all but something that has had to be imposed, managed, organized, propagandized and maintained by force is an immense step to take if you consider yourself freely and "innately" heterosexual. Yet the failure to examine heterosexuality as an institution is like failing to admit that the economic system called capitalism or the caste system of racism is maintained by a variety of forces, including both physical violence and false consciousness. . ."
-- Adrienne Rich, in Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence: http://www.terry.uga.edu/~dawndba/4500compulsoryhet.htm
“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.” ~ Alice Walker
-- Adrienne Rich, in Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence: http://www.terry.uga.edu/~dawndba/4500compulsoryhet.htm
“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.” ~ Alice Walker
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Re: Anti-Porn Bibliography?
by oneangrygirl » Fri Jan 04, 2008 12:01 pm
i have a list at oneangrygirl.net/antiporn.html which i can't view at work due to firewall.
if your friend is academically inclined i would suggest Melissa Farley's "Prostitution, Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress" or ZIllman and Bryant's "Something Scholarly Whose Title I Forget"
if your friend is academically inclined i would suggest Melissa Farley's "Prostitution, Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress" or ZIllman and Bryant's "Something Scholarly Whose Title I Forget"
I guess some slavery feels like freedom.
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Re: Anti-Porn Bibliography?
by MaggieH » Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:43 pm
oag wrote:i would suggest Melissa Farley's "Prostitution, Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress" or ZIllman and Bryant's "Something Scholarly Whose Title I Forget"
Yeah, these 2 are also on my booklist... I remember long before I'd created my website, the very first antiporn booklist I had read was the one that was on OAG's brilliant website.
Prostitution, Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress is such a great book, BTW!
"The assumption that "most women are innately heterosexual'' stands as a theoretical and political stumbling block for many women. It remains a tenable assumption, partly because lesbian existence has been written out of history or catalogued under disease;. . . partly because to acknowledge that for women heterosexuality may not be a "preference" at all but something that has had to be imposed, managed, organized, propagandized and maintained by force is an immense step to take if you consider yourself freely and "innately" heterosexual. Yet the failure to examine heterosexuality as an institution is like failing to admit that the economic system called capitalism or the caste system of racism is maintained by a variety of forces, including both physical violence and false consciousness. . ."
-- Adrienne Rich, in Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence: http://www.terry.uga.edu/~dawndba/4500compulsoryhet.htm
“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.” ~ Alice Walker
-- Adrienne Rich, in Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence: http://www.terry.uga.edu/~dawndba/4500compulsoryhet.htm
“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.” ~ Alice Walker
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Re: Anti-Porn Bibliography?
by MaggieH » Sat Jan 05, 2008 1:20 pm
Ariel wrote:MaggieH, Making Sex work is an excellent book. I highly recommend it.
Thanks, Ariel. I've just ordered it today. I hope my booklist helps you then...
"The assumption that "most women are innately heterosexual'' stands as a theoretical and political stumbling block for many women. It remains a tenable assumption, partly because lesbian existence has been written out of history or catalogued under disease;. . . partly because to acknowledge that for women heterosexuality may not be a "preference" at all but something that has had to be imposed, managed, organized, propagandized and maintained by force is an immense step to take if you consider yourself freely and "innately" heterosexual. Yet the failure to examine heterosexuality as an institution is like failing to admit that the economic system called capitalism or the caste system of racism is maintained by a variety of forces, including both physical violence and false consciousness. . ."
-- Adrienne Rich, in Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence: http://www.terry.uga.edu/~dawndba/4500compulsoryhet.htm
“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.” ~ Alice Walker
-- Adrienne Rich, in Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence: http://www.terry.uga.edu/~dawndba/4500compulsoryhet.htm
“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.” ~ Alice Walker
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Re: Anti-Porn Bibliography?
by Lost Clown » Tue Jan 08, 2008 12:04 am
Transforming a Rape Culture has some articles on porn, and is a good read regardless.
"One must care about a world one will never see." -Bertrand Russell
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." Clarence Darrow
"Pornography is to sex what McDonald's is to food." -Gail Dines
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." Clarence Darrow
"Pornography is to sex what McDonald's is to food." -Gail Dines
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