Academic Dialogue on Applied Ethics

Feminists' Perspectives on Pornography: Background

The following are key figures whose ideas will be discussed at this forum. This background section provides an overview of their perspectives and suggestions for further conversations.

Anti-Pornography Feminists Works discussed include Catherine MacKinnon's Only Words and selections from Susan Dwyer's The Problem of Pornography.
Anti-Censorship Feminists Works discussed include Drucilla Cornell's The Imaginary Domain and Nadine Strossen's Defending Pornography.
Anti-Anti-Pornography Feminists Works discussed include Pat Califia's Public Sex and Wendy McElroy's A Woman's Right to Pornography.
The issue of pornography and its relation to Censorship and the Internet can be found throughout the World Wide Web. Select here for some WWW Resources. See also a Special HyperText Edition on Pornography and the Internet in the Computer-Mediated Communications Magazine (a linear version of Robert Cavalier's article, Feminism and Pornography: A Dialogical Perspective is available at this site).
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Robert Cavalier, Carnegie Mellon and Charles Ess, Drury College