Event Title
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.
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
