Cultural Feminism

Feminist Capitalism and the Anti-Pornography Movement

Bibliographic Data

ID2922136
AuthorsAlice Echols (corresponding author)
Year1983
Issue7
Pages34
Publication date1983-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Text (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0164-2472 • E-ISSN: 1527-1951
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/466453
OpenAlexW2313625629
LanguageEN
Citations received7

This article offers a critique of the dominant strain in current radical feminism, cultural feminism, whose ideology, I argue, mirrors dominant cultural assumptions about gender and sexuality. This is a critique which has developed from within the women's movement and it reflects the author's involvement in the lesbian-feminist community over the past eight years. Within this movement in general there has been a stifling of debate over the last decade. For instance, anti-pornography feminists try to discredit their feminist critics by labeling them non-feminist or by suggesting that they represent but a tiny offshoot of the movement. Cultural feminism's selective reevaluation of femininity has contributed to this prohibition against dissent. Cultural feminists have not only characterized criticism as unsisterly or a carryover from the trashing style of the male left, but as maleidentified. It is hoped that this paper will contribute to the re-opening of debate around the crucial areas of gender and sexuality

Dissent · Feminist movement · Pornography · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Sex work and related issues · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology

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