Women Against Pornography
Women Against Pornography - WAP was a radical feminist anti- pornographic activist group founded in 1978 in New York City , USA . This association was a very influential group in the anti-pornography movement of the late 1970s and 1980s.
overview
WAP was the best known of a number of feminist anti-pornographic groups active in the United States and the Anglophone-speaking world, mostly during the late 1970s to the early 1990s. After several unsuccessful attempts to set up a group of anti-pornographic and feminist activists, the WAP was founded in 1978. This was preceded by public debates about the goals of radical feminists in New York. Only after an anti-pornographic conference in 1978, at which Susan Brownmiller was able to win Lynn Campbell from San Francisco for the New York group of Women Against Violence in Pornography and Media (WAVPM) , did the actual organizational work begin. Founding members were Adrienne Rich , Grace Paley , Gloria Steinem , Shere Hite and Andrea Dworkin , among others .
The group quickly gained widespread support for its anti-porn campaign. At the end of 1979 she organized a protest march to Times Square with over 5000 supporters. Her anti-pornographic activities also earned her unexpected financial support from the mayor's office, movie theater owners, and other parties interested in socializing Times Square. After the protest march to Times Square, Campbell stopped working for health reasons. Brownmiller also retired to finish her book Feminity . Dorchen Leidholdt then took over the leadership of the group.
WAP's anti-pornographic information sessions and visits by WAP members to sex shops and porn cinemas in Times Square made the group known. In the 1980s, lobbying and legislative initiatives against pornography were in the foreground at WAP . The group supported appropriate civil rights and anti-pornographic legislation. In the late 1980s, the leadership of the WAP focused primarily on international sex trafficking. The group were among the founders of the coalition against trafficking in women. After Leibholdt resigned as a board member to support this coalition, Norma Ramos took over the leadership of the group. During the 1990s, the group's activities declined. It went out completely in the mid-1990s.
The group's positions were controversial. The bourgeois liberals opposed the WAP and similar groups. The Liberals called the proposed changes to the law censorship. Sex-positive feminists viewed the feminist campaigns as misguided and a threat to sexual freedom and expression that would ultimately turn against women themselves, homosexuals and sexual minorities. WAP became part of some fierce debates with sex-positive feminists, later that slugfest became known as the Feminist Sex Wars of the late 1970s and 1980s.
literature
- Susan Brownmiller: In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution. The Dial Press, 1999. ISBN 0-385-31486-8
- Dorchen Leidholdt: Demand and the Debate. Coalition Against Trafficking in Women. 2004
- Dorchen Leidholdt and Janice Raymond: The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism , Pergamon Press 1990, ISBN 0-08-037457-3
Web links
- Women Against Pornography Records.
- Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
- "Women's War on Porn" Time, August 27, 1979.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lynn Campbell ( Memento of the original from May 20, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Brownmiller, Susan (1999). In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution . New York: The Dial Press. p 298-299. ISBN 0-385-31486-8
- ↑ Susan Brownmiller: Feminity
- ↑ Leidholdt, Dorchen. (2004). Demand and the Debate. ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (website).
- ↑ "A Conversation About Pornography" ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. with Norma Ramos and Nadine Strossen from January 19, 1995. (English, video)
