Gail Dines

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Gail Dines (born around 1958) is a radical feminist media scholar known for her anti-pornography work.

[edit] Anti-pornography scholarship and activism

Dines is the founder of Stop Porn Culture, a politically feminist organization which publishes material for activists to use for anti-pornography education.

Her main beef is with the porn industry for profiting off of the humiliation of women and men, reproducing and reinforcing sexist and racist ideology, preying on adolescent and pre-adolescent minors, and, in her view, trying to make everyone's sexuality the same. However, she is also concerned with the fact that softcore pornography has migrated into mainstream culture.

[edit] Opinion of third-wave feminism

While acknowledging that third-wave feminism has produced some good-work, like intersectionality, she claims that on the whole, it is just neoliberal ideology applied to the women's movement.[1] Among her arguments is that third-wavers seem to emphasize individual women's empowerment, whereas second-wavers were big on women's liberation as an entire gender/class. She's not wrong that there are plenty of third-wavers who think this way, or that it seems to be the prevailing feminist ideology today. Where she is incorrect is in seeing second-wavers as the radicals and third-wavers as the (neo)liberals. There have been radical traditions in all three waves, and there have been liberal/moderate/conservative traditions in all three waves.

[edit] Books

[edit] Footnotes

  1. Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism (YouTube), a lecture of hers from July 2012
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