Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography

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As prostitution and pornography increasingly saturate our lives and our communities, they are also becoming normalized and accepted as harmless entertainment for men and as legitimate, even liberating, forms of work for women. Not for sale brings the feminist movement against prostitution and pornography into the 21st century, showing how these industries cause grievous harm to those within them while undermining the possibilities for gender justice, human equality, and truly diverse and joyful sexual relationships. The essays collected here connect feminist perspectives on the sex industry with radical critiques of racism, poverty, militarism, and unbridled corporate capitalism, and unbridled corporate capitalism, and how the harms of prostitution and pornography are amplified by contemporary technologies of mass communication. Bringing together research, testimony, and theory by more the thirty writers and activists from different countries and generations, including a number of courageous industry survivors, Not for sale is both a vital contribution to ongoing debates and a call to action and resistance.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Christine Stark

Christine Stark is a feminist writer, artist, speaker, and activist of American Indian and European ancestry. She has spoken nationally and internationally on issues of rape, race, poverty, home-lessness, prostitution and pornography and organized many community events, including Amerika: land of rape and genocide. Her writing and art have been published in numerous periodicals and anthologies and she has appeared on national Public radio and various television and radio shows. She was interviewed for Dirty Little Secret, a documentary on sexual violence. She is a member of the Minnesota Indian Womenâ€™s Sexual Assault Coalition and completing her MFA in writing from Minnesota state university. Christine is a survivor of incest and a racist prostitution and pornography ring.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rebecca Whisnant

Rebecca Whisnant received her doctorate in philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dayton. In addition to teaching and publishing in ethics and feminist theory, she is an anti-pornography educator and peace activist who has done public speaking on topics ranging from same-sex marriage to the US wars on Afghanistan and Iraq. Her Current work focuses on intersections and tensions between feminist theory and the philosophy of non-violence.