Bad Girls Dirty Pictures: The Challenge to Reclaim Feminism

Alison Assiter and Avedon Carol argue that half-baked analysis and phony science have been used by some feminists to sidetrack the women's movement into puritanical campaigns against sexual material and imaginative sexual exploration.They contend that this widely-publicised version of feminism is itself sexist, and that vocal anti-pornography campaigns are founded on theoretical dead-ends that have diverted feminists from the central goals of women's liberation.