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113. Ibid., 15253. The importance of balancing care for the self and care for others is also cited in Joan Tronto, "Beyond Gender Difference to a Theory of Care," in
An Ethic of Care: Feminist and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
, ed. Mary Jeanne Larrabee (New York: Routledge, 1993), 249.
114. Trebilcot, "Taking Responsibility for Sexuality," 422, 428.
115. Webster, "The Forbidden," 395, 396.
116. Ibid., 39597; also see Weeks,
Sexuality and Its Discontents
, 24245.
Chapter 4
1. For example, see Part I, "Survivors of Pornography," in
Making Violence Sexy: Feminist Views on Pornography
, ed. Diana E. H. Russell (Buckingham, U.K.: Open University Press, 1993); Laura Lederer, "Then and Now: An Interview with a Former Pornography Model," in
Take Back the Night: Women on Pornography
, ed. Laura Lederer (New York: William Morrow, 1980), 5770; Linda Lovelace,
Ordeal
(Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel Press, 1980); "Attorney General's Commission on Pornography: Final Report, 1986" (Washington: U.S. Department of Justice); "It's Not Outside Morality," by B, and "We Take It for All Women," by C, in
Prostitutes: Our Life
, ed. Claude Jaget (Bristol, U.K.: Falling Wall Press, 1980), 81113; Kathleen Barry,
Female Sexual Slavery
(Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1979), 73102; Florence Rush, "Child Pornography," in Lederer,
Take Back the Night
, 7181.
 
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2. See Martha O'Campo, "Pornography and Prostitution in the Philippines," in
Good Girls/Bad Girls: Feminists and Sex Trade Workers Face to Face
, ed. Laurie Bell (Toronto: Seal Press, 1987), 6776; Saundra Pollack Sturdevant and Brenda Stoltzfus,
Let the Good Times Roll: Prostitution and the U.S. Military in Asia
(New York: New Press, 1993); Thanh-Dam Truong,
Sex, Money and Morality: Prostitution and Tourism in South-East Asia
(London: Zed Books, 1990).
3. Quoted in Catharine A. MacKinnon,
Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987), 180.
4. See Diana E. H. Russell, "Pornography and Rape: A Causal Model," in Russell,
Making Violence Sexy
, 14245; MacKinnon,
Feminism Unmodified
, 18384, 18889; Patricia Hill Collins, "Pornography and Black Women's Bodies," and Alice Mayall and Diana E. H. Russell, "Racism in Pornography," in Russell,
Making Violence Sexy
, 97104, 16778; Voices M and K, in Kate Millett, "Prostitution: A Quartet of Female Voices," in
Woman in Sexist Society: Studies in Power and Powerlessness
, ed. Vivian Gornick and Barbara K. Moran (New York: Basic Books, 1971), 64120; Priscilla Alexander, "Prostitution: A Difficult Issue for Feminists,'' in
Sex Work: Writings by Women in the Sex Industry
, ed. Frédérique Delacoste and Priscilla Alexander (Pittsburgh: Cleis Press, 1987), 2012.
5. Evelina Giobbe, "Surviving Commercial Sexual Exploitation," in Russell,
Making Violence Sexy
, 40; also see J, in Millett, "Prostitution," 64125; Lederer, "Then and Now," 5770.
6. See Diana E. H. Russell, "Introduction," in Russell,
Making Violence Sexy
, 1417; also see Sheldon Teitelbaum, "Cybersex,"
Los Angeles Times Magazine
, 15 August 1993; Robert A. Jones, "Wanna Buy a Dirty CD-ROM?,"
Los Angeles Times Magazine
, 19 March 1995; Gareth Branwyn, "Compu-Sex: Erotica for Cybernauts," in
Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberspace
, ed. Mark Dery (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1994), 20335. According to John R. Levine and Carol Baroudi, the Internet newsgroup with the largest amount of traffic, measured in megabytes per day, is called "alt.binaries.pictures.erotica." The abbreviation "alt" stands for "alternative" newsgroup, one that is not part of the mainstream established newsgroup hierarchies requiring a formal charter and an on-line vote by its prospective readers and nonreaders. I wonder: is this newsgroup's "otherness" part of its allure? What would happen to its content and readership if it went mainstream? See
The Internet for Dummies
, 2d ed. (Foster City, Calif.: IDG Books, 1994), 136, 157.
7. MacKinnon,
Feminism Unmodified
, 137.
8. Susan Brownmiller, "Women Fight Back," in
Pornography: Private Right or Public Menace?
, ed. Robert M. Baird and Stuart E. Rosenbaum (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1991), 38 (also printed in Lederer,
Take Back the Night
); Robin Morgan, "Theory and Practice: Pornography and Rape," in Lederer,
Take Back the Night
, 139; MacKinnon,
Feminism Unmodified
, 18386, 203; Diana E. H. Russell,
Sexual Exploitation: Rape, Child Sexual Abuse, and Workplace Harassment
(Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1984).
9. See Judith Walkowitz, "The Politics of Prostitution,"
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
6, no. 1 (autumn 1980): 12335, for the ways in which nineteenth-century feminist political goals were subverted by moral conservatives; also see Rosemarie Tong's discussion of
Miller v. California
(1973), which raises some of the difficulties with defining obscenity, in Rosemarie Tong,
Women, Sex, and the Law
(Savage, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1984), 89; Donald Alexander Downs,
The New Politics of Pornography
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989).
10. See Gloria Steinem, "Erotica and Pornography: A Clear and Present Difference," in Baird and Rosenbaum,
Pornography
, 5155 (also printed in Lederer,
Take Back the Night
); Eva Feder Kittay, "Pornography and the Erotics of Domination," in
Beyond Domination: New Perspectives on Women and Philosophy
, ed. Carol C. Gould (Totowa, N.J.: Rowman &

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