Pornography Presentation
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Posted by Web Team, April 27, 2007
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SEX(ISM), IDENTITY AND INTIMACY IN A PORNOGRAPHIC CULTURE: A POWERFUL MULTI-MEDIA PRESENTATION BY GAIL DINES, PH.D.
Open to all of the Simmons community, seating is first come, first serve. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session.
Tuesday, May 1st
6:30pm
Linda K. Paresky Conference Center
From Internet pornography to MTV, popular culture bombards us with sexualized images of idealized women and men, and conveys powerful messages that help shape sexuality. These pictures jump off the screen and into our culture and are now so commonplace that they seep into our gender identity, our body image and especially our intimate relationships. The result is not a more liberated, edgy sexuality, but a mass produced vision of sex that is profoundly sexist – a vision that limits our ability to create authentic, equal relationships that are fee of violence and degradation. In this powerful multi-media presentation, Dr. Gail Dines uses examples from pornography, magazines, television shows, and movies to explore how masculinity and femininity are shaped by a consumer-driven image-based culture, and the ways public images spill into our most private worlds.
Dr. Gail Dines, Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies at Wheelock College in Boston, is a nationally known lecturer on college campuses. She is co-editor of the best-selling text book Gender, Race and Class in Media and co-author of Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality. She has written numerous articles on pornography, media images of women and representations of race in popular culture. Her work has appeared in academic journals, edited books, newspapers, and magazines, and she is a recipient of the Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in North America.
Dr. Gail Dines is a regular guest on television and radio shows including ABC News, Entertainment Tonight, New England Cable News and National Public Radio. She has appeared in Time, Newsweek, Vogue, Marie Claire and has worked with Hollywood studios to develop strategies for creating progressive images of women on national television. She is also a featured speaker in documentaries such as Beyond Killing Us Softly: The Strength to Resist, Mickey Mouse Monopoly and A Drug Called Pornography.
