pornography

What Radical Feminist Andrea Dworkin Can Teach Us Today

In the U.S. and in Canada, the 1980s pornography debate created a huge chasm in the women’s movement.

The mirror has long been touted as a feminist symbol of liberation. For some women, it is a means of understanding identity, a path to empowerment, a vehicle for harnessing sexual awareness.

In light of a new documentary celebrating Hugh Hefner as the grandfather of the sexual revolution, feminists might be wondering how mainstream heterosexual pornography has evolved since Playboy was launched in 1953.