Pornland How the Porn Industry Has Hijacked Our Sexuality

Streaming video - 2014

Pornography has moved from the margins of society into the very mainstream of American culture. From Internet pornography to MTV, sexualized images of idealized women and men jump off the screen and into our lives, in the process shaping our gender identities, our body image, and our most intimate relationships. In this multimedia presentation based on her acclaimed book, leading anti-porn feminist and scholar Gail Dines argues that the dominant images and stories disseminated by the multibillion-dollar pornography industry produce and reproduce a gender system that undermines equality and encourages violence against women. In direct opposition to claims that porn has delivered a more liberated, edgy sexuality, Dines reveals a mass-produced... vision of sex that is at once profoundly sexist and deeply destructive—a vision that limits our ability to create authentic, equal relationships free of violence and degradation. The result is a fascinating introduction to the core arguments of the feminist anti-pornography movement.

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Genres
Documentary films
Published
Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation 2014.
[San Francisco, California, USA] : 2016.
Language
English
Corporate Author
Kanopy (Firm)
Corporate Author
Kanopy (Firm) (-)
Other Authors
Gail Dines (-), Sut Jhally
Online Access
A Kanopy streaming video
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Physical Description
1 online resource (1 video file, 34 min.)
Format
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Audience
Age 18 and over.
Access
AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).