CENSORSHIP AND FEMINISM
FEMINIST REDEFINITION OF PORNOGRAPHY
Indianapolis Ordinance: pornography is "the graphic sexually explicit subordination of women, whether in pictures or in words."
The focus is on "harm to women" [violence, degredation, subordination] and not the Miller test.
prurient interest and patently offensive: "However prurient and offensive these might seem to the commuity, explicit portrayals of egalitarian sexual encounters would be legalized."Artistic merit is not a factor in giving the portrayal constitutional protection.
REJECTION OF THE NEW DEFINITION IN THE U.S.
Case: American Booksellers Ass'n v. Hudnut (7th Cir. 1985)
p. 28: "This is thought control . . ."
p. 30: "Racial bigotry, . . ."