Porn and Feminism in a New Light

Location

CSU 204

Start Date

24-4-2007 10:30 AM

End Date

24-4-2007 12:30 PM

Student's Major

Gender and Women's Studies

Student's College

Social and Behavioral Sciences

Mentor's Name

Jocelyn Fenton Stitt

Mentor's Department

Gender and Women's Studies

Mentor's College

Social and Behavioral Sciences

Description

All parts of culture affect women and feminism. Therefore pornography affects feminism. This study worked to understand in what ways pom effects feminism. Further, how has feminism affected the pornographic industry? To understand feminism and the pom industry there are many readings including older articles that deal with the rise of pornography in the Women's Liberation Movement, texts like Sexual Revolution contain older writings and new anecdotal books like Naked-Ambition: Women Who Are Changing Pornography and articles dealing exclusively with this issue. This project surveyed existing feminist writings about pornography in an attempt to answer that unanswerable question of whether or not pomography hurts women. I attempted to take a frank look at how they interact with each other and change for the better or worse. There is an old idea of how pornography hurts women while others believe in free speech and that women make their own decisions on pornography. Over time feminists have formed different ideas on pornography, but the old negative idea has stuck. A way to change that is to look at the old and new writings on the subject as a way to form a new opinion. The research involved for this project is a way for feminists of today to form a new opinion that is neither old or new.

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Porn and Feminism in a New Light

CSU 204

All parts of culture affect women and feminism. Therefore pornography affects feminism. This study worked to understand in what ways pom effects feminism. Further, how has feminism affected the pornographic industry? To understand feminism and the pom industry there are many readings including older articles that deal with the rise of pornography in the Women's Liberation Movement, texts like Sexual Revolution contain older writings and new anecdotal books like Naked-Ambition: Women Who Are Changing Pornography and articles dealing exclusively with this issue. This project surveyed existing feminist writings about pornography in an attempt to answer that unanswerable question of whether or not pomography hurts women. I attempted to take a frank look at how they interact with each other and change for the better or worse. There is an old idea of how pornography hurts women while others believe in free speech and that women make their own decisions on pornography. Over time feminists have formed different ideas on pornography, but the old negative idea has stuck. A way to change that is to look at the old and new writings on the subject as a way to form a new opinion. The research involved for this project is a way for feminists of today to form a new opinion that is neither old or new.

Recommended Citation

Cody, Elizabeth. "Porn and Feminism in a New Light." Undergraduate Research Symposium, Mankato, MN, April 24, 2007.
https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/urs/2007/oral-session-13/5