She obtained her BSc from Salford University, where she met her husband, David Levy, who was studying at the University of Manchester. I remember thinking: 'I have been waiting for this my entire life, and I didn't even know I was waiting for it." I remember what happened to me the first time I read radical feminism.
I go in and teach radical feminism, bang, the room explodes. . She spoke in 2011 about the appeal of radical feminism: "After teaching women for 20-odd years, if I go in and I teach liberal feminism, I get looked blank . When she was 18, after reading Robin Morgan's book Sisterhood is Powerful (1970), she abandoned Orthodox Judaism and became a radical feminist, later calling her relationship to feminism "a passionate love affair". Early life and education ĭines was born to an Orthodox Jewish family in Manchester, England, and attended King David School. The exposure of teenage girls to the images affects their sense of sexual identity, with the result, Dines writes, that women are "held captive" by images that lie about them, and that femininity is reduced to the "hypersexualized, young, thin, toned, hairless, and, in many cases, surgically enhanced woman with a come-hither look on her face". Dines is co-author of Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality (1997) and author of Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality (2010).ĭines writes that boys and men are exposed online to pornography that is increasingly cruel and violent toward women she argues that pornography is "the perfect propaganda piece for patriarchy". Described in 2010 as the world's leading anti-pornography campaigner, she is a founding member of Stop Porn Culture and founder of Culture Reframed, created to address pornography as a public-health crisis. Ī radical feminist, Dines specializes in the study of pornography.
Gail Dines (born 29 July 1958) is professor emerita of sociology and women's studies at Wheelock College in Boston, Massachusetts. Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality (2010) Towards a Sociology of Cartoons: A Framework for Sociological Investigation with Special Reference to Playboy Sex Cartoons (1990) Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in North AmericaīSc and PhD in sociology, University of Salford Professor emerita of sociology and women's studies, Wheelock College, Boston, MA
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