In Harm's Way: The Pornography Civil Rights HearingsCatharine 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. |
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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 |
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