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From: jet@karazm.math.uh.EDU ("J. Eric Townsend")
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Subject: Dworkin questions ( for those who know her work well
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Date: 18 Nov 90 07:00:19 GMT
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In article <45691@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> feit@acsu.buffalo.edu (Elissa Feit) writes:
>Re: The Amendment to Minneapolis's Civil rights law:
>(I quote from Dworkin's _Pornography_:)
>[definition deleted]

Dworkin defines pornography solely in terms of exploiting women. (12
mentions of women, no mention of men.)  Does she consider only that
which exploits women as harmfull to society?  Has she ever said
why she didn't include pornography that exploits men (or male
children)?

[I'm thinking of the text of the law that Dworkin drafted -- the last
sentence or so says, basically, that the pornography as just defined
(in terms of women) is still degrading when men, children, or
transexxuals are substituted.  I'm interpreting that as egalitarian --
is there a different interpretation of this?  --CLT]

I'm not ranking on her, I'm honestly curious.  Her work isn't that easy
to find, so I haven't read to much of it.  (However, a friend just scored
most of her works on interlibrary loan, so I might have a tough weekend
ahead of me soon.)


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