In Harm's Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings

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Catharine A. MacKinnon, Andrea Dworkin
Harvard University Press, 1997 - 496 pagine

This book contains the oral testimony of victims of pornography, spoken on the record for the first time in history.

Speaking at hearings on a groundbreaking antipornography civil rights law, women offer eloquent witness to the devastation pornography has caused in their lives. Supported by social science experts and authorities on rape, battery, and prostitution, discounted and opposed by free speech advocates and absolutists, their riveting testimony articulates the centrality of pornography to sexual abuse and inequity today.

At issue in these hearings is a law conceived and drafted by Andrea Dworkin and Catharine A. MacKinnon that defines harm done through pornography as a legal injury of sex discrimination warranting civil redress. From the first set of hearings in Minneapolis in 1983 through those before the Massachusetts state legislature in 1992, the witnesses heard here expose the commonplace reality of denigration and sexual subordination due to pornography and refute the widespread notion that pornography is harmless expression that must be protected by the state.

Introduced with powerful essays by MacKinnon and Dworkin, these hearings--unabridged and with each word scrupulously verified--constitute a unique record of a conflict over the meaning of democracy itself--a major civil rights struggle for our time and a fundamental crisis in United States constitutional law: Can we sacrifice the lives of women and children to a pornographer's right to free "speech"? Can we allow the First Amendment to shield sexual exploitation and predatory sexual violence? These pages contain all the arguments for protecting pornography--and dramatically document its human cost.

 

Sommario

The Roar on the Other Side of Silence
3
Memo on Proposed Ordinance
25
Edward Donnerstein
44
Linda Marchiano
60
Pauline Bart
68
Jane Strauss
76
Sharon Warwick
83
Clifford Greene
89
Steven G Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth The Only Living Witness A True Account of Homicidal Insanity Simon and Schuster 1983
230
Complaint State v defendant Hennepin County District Court Oct 7 1983
232
Letter of Marcia Kading Dec 8 1983
236
Letter of Sandra Hewitt Ph D Dec 9 1983
237
Letter of d c Dec 5 1983
238
Letter of Trudee AblePeterson Dec 1 1983
239
Letter of Katherine Brady Nov 29 1983
240
Letter of Louise Armstrong Dec 8 1983
242

Robert Halfhill
95
R M
101
Vaughn
152
Exhibits original exhibit numbers are in brackets 203 Exhibit 1 7 Studies Submitted to the Minneapolis City Council Dec 12 1983
203
Questions and References Donnerstein
204
Nat Laurendi Polygraph Examination of Linda Lovelace Nov 8 1979
205
25
210
Letter of Kathleen L Barry Ph D Nov 15 1983
213
Letter of Flora Colao C S W Nov 10 1983
214
Audience Data on Not a Love Story Bart
216
Letter of Michelle Harrison M D Dec 9 1983
220
Letter of Robin Morgan Dec 5 1983
221
Letter of Jaime Lyn Bauer
224
Memo of A W Dec 13 1983
225
Letter of Marvin E Lewis Esq Dec 7 1983
227
Letter of Phyllis Chesler Ph D Dec 7 1983
228
Letter of Ellen T Luepker M S W A C S W Dec 12 1983
229
Letter of AnneMarie Eriksson and Erik A Eriksson Lt Col USAF Ret Dec 7 1983
248
Letter of Jim Lovestar Dec 6 1983
250
Letter of John Stoltenberg M Div M F A Dec 1 1983
251
Press Conference July 25 1984
260
The Indianapolis Hearing
269
Mary
276
Appendices
290
Brief of the Neighborhood Pornography Task Force
321
The Los Angeles Hearing
332
The Massachusetts Hearing
361
Pat Haas
370
Written Submissions
417
Submission of Gail Kielson
423
Minneapolis Ordinance 1984
433
Massachusetts Ordinance 1992
457
Index
483
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