I've been enjoying theme reading these past few months: February was Black History Month in North America and March was, obviously, a celebration of women's history. This month I'm going to read feminist critiques of prostitution and pornography. As ever, I probably won't make it through the whole list but these are the texts I have lined up:
Melinda Tankard Reist's Big Porn Inc.: Exposing the Harms of the Global Pornography Industry
Karen Boyle's Everyday Pornography
Laura Lederer's Take by The Night: Women on Pornography
Jennifer Hayashi Danns with Sandrine Leveque's Stripped: The Bare Faced Reality of Lap Dancing
Trine Rogg Korsvik & Ane Sto's The Nordic Approach: Feminists Write Candidly about the Nordic Battle to Ban the Purchase of Sex
Andrea Dworkin's Pornography: Men Possessing Women
Linda Lovelace's Ordeal
Linda Lovelace's Out of Bondage
Kathleen Barry's The Prostitution of Sexuality: The Global Exploitation of Women
Sheila Jeffrey's Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution
Christine Stark & Rebecca Whisnant's Not For Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography
These are some texts I highly recommend:
Gail Dines' Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality
Robert Jensen's Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity
Ariel Levy's Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
Julia Long's Anti-Porn The Resurgence of Anti-Pornography Feminism
Melinda Tankard Reist's Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls
Natasha Walter's Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism
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