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London socialist-feminist dicussion group: Pornography, sexual explicitness, and women's oppression

Issues and campaigns
9 May 2008 - 7:30pm

Location: 

Lucas Arms, 245A Grays Inn Road, near Kings Cross


Description: 

In this meeting we will examine and critique different feminist views of pornography Some feminists argue porn is an expression of an exploitative “male culture” and is irredeemably oppressive to women At the other extreme some say that porn as sexually explicit material can benefit women’s sexual liberation What’s wrong/right about these views and the all the others in between?

Suggested reading:

Book
Latest (against porn): Pornography: Driving the Demand in International Sex Trafficking (2007) edited by David E. Guinn and Julie DiCaro; Captive Daughters Media

On the net
http://www.wendymcelroy.com/
author of the book XXX a Woman’s Right to Pornography available on her website
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_Against_Pornography: history of radical feminist anti-pornography campaign
www.fiawol.demon.co.uk: Feminists Against Censorship
https://www.againstpornography.org: loads of stuff against porn!


The shameful face of Al Quds day

For equality, against bigotry
Author: 
Peter Tatchell

ON the Al Quds march, I held two placards. One with a Palestinian flag and “Free Palestine”, and the other with a photograph of a 16-year-old girl, Atefeh Rajabi Sahaaleh, who was executed in 2004 by the Iranian regime for “crimes against chastity”, having been sexually abused since childhood.


Migrants are Not the Problem

For equality, against bigotry
Author: 
Mike Rowley

Julie Spence, the head of Cambridgeshire Police, launched a vitriolic attack in early September on the numbers of Eastern European migrants working in the county.


Festival of the oppressed

For equality, against bigotry

Why does Workers' Liberty always talk about class? Are people not oppressed in other ways too? By sexism, racism, homophobia and other prejudices?


No retreat to relativism!

For equality, against bigotry

The Alliance for Workers’ Liberty unequivocally supports women’s rights, freedom and equality. Similarly, we unequivocally oppose racism and homophobia.We say no socialism without liberation, no liberation without socialism.


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