 | Littlefield, 1983), 14585; Rosemaria Tong, "Feminism, Pornography, and Censorship,"
Social Theory and Practice
8, no. 1 (spring 1982): 117; Russell, "Introduction," 23. For work being done in lesbian erotica, see comments by Susie Bright (of
On Our Backs
), Nan Kinny and Debi Sundahl (of Blush Entertainment Productions), Marie Mason (of Hot Chixx), and author Katherine Forrest in Victoria A. Brownworth, "The Porn Boom,"
Lesbian News
18, no. 7 (February 1993): 4243, 6163. Less overtly sexist or less violent sexually explicit material has already found consumers in heterosexual women, as more women are choosing (with their dollars) which sex videos to bring home. See Brownworth, ''The Porn Boom." For examples of erotic literature written by, and for, women, see Susie Bright, ed.,
Herotica
(Burlingame, Calif.: Down There Press, 1988); Louise Thornton, Jan Sturtevant, and Amber Coverdale Sumrall, eds.,
Touching Fire: Erotic Writings by Women
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 1989); Michele Slung, ed.,
Slow Hand: Women Writing Erotica
(New York: HarperCollins, 1992); Lonnie Barbach, ed.,
Pleasures: Women Write Erotica
(New York: HarperCollins, 1984); Laura Chester, ed.,
Deep Down: The New Sensual Writing by Women
(Boston: Faber & Faber, 1989). Essays that combine erotic writing with feminist cultural criticism can be found in
Sexy Bodies: The Strange Carnalities of Feminism,
ed. Elizabeth Grosz and Elspeth Robyn (New York: Routledge, 1995).
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| 11. Andrea Dworkin,
Pornography: Men Possessing Women
(New York: E. P. Dutton, 1989), xlii; also see Barry,
Female Sexual Slavery
, 17485; MacKinnon,
Feminism Unmodified
, 14849; A Southern Women's Writing Collective, "Sex Resistance in Heterosexual Arrangements," in
The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism
, ed. Dorchen Leidholdt and Janice G. Raymond (New York: Teachers College Press, 1990), 14047.
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| 12. MacKinnon,
Feminism Unmodified
, 160.
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| 13. See Lorenne Clark, "Liberalism and Pornography," in
Pornography and Censorship: Philosophical, Scientific and Legal Studies
, ed. David Copp and Susan Wendell (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1983), 4950, 5657; Christine Boyle and Sheila Noonan, "Gender Neutrality, Prostitution, and Pornography," in Bell,
Good Girls/Bad Girls
, 4547; Evelina Giobbe, "Confronting the Liberal Lies about Prostitution," in Leidholdt and Raymond,
The Sexual Liberals
, 75; Sarah Wynter, "WHISPER: Women Hurt in Systems of Prostitution Engaged in Revolt," in Delacoste and Alexander,
Sex Work
, 26768. For a comprehensive survey of feminists' arguments against pornography, see Catherine Itzin, ed.,
Pornography: Women, Violence, and Civil Liberties
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1993).
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| 14. See Deirdre English, in Deirdre English, Amber Hollibaugh, and Gayle Rubin, "Talking Sex: A Conversation on Sexuality and Feminism,"
Socialist Review
11, no. 4 (1981): 61; Gayle Rubin, in ibid., 57, 60; Alison Assiter and Avedon Carol, "Introduction," and Gayle Rubin, "Misguided, Dangerous, and Wrong: An Analysis of Anti-Pornography Politics," in
Bad Girls and Dirty Pictures: The Challenge to Reclaim Feminism
, ed. Alison Assiter and Avedon Carol (London: Pluto Press, 1993), 1516; 2125; Camille Paglia,
Vamps and Tramps: New Essays
(New York: Vintage Books, 1994), 65; Paula Webster, "Pornography and Pleasure,"
Heresies
#12 "Sex Issue" 3, no. 4 (1981): 4851; Valerie Scott, Peggy Miller, and Ryan Hotchkiss, of the Canadian Organization for the Rights of Prostitutes (CORP), "Realistic Feminists," in Bell,
Good Girls/Bad Girls
, 217.
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| 15. See COYOTE/National Task Force on Prostitution position statement, in Delacoste and Alexander,
Sex Work
, 290; Varda Burstyn, "Who the Hell Is 'We'?," in Bell,
Good Girls/Bad Girls
, 168. For an excellent contemporary history of the movement for prostitutes' rights as well as a discussion of the variety of prostitutes' lives, from victim to vamp, see Gail Pheterson, "Not Repeating History," in
A Vindication of the Rights of Whores
, ed. Gail Pheterson (Seattle: Seal Press, 1989), 330.
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| 16. For examples of radical feminist positions that would reject a strong antipornography stance, see Deirdre English, "The Politics of Porn: Can Feminists Walk the Line?,"
Mother
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