Hamilton, Maggie (2010) What’s Happening to Our Boys? Viking, Camberwell.
Jensen, Robert (2007) Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity. South End Press, Cambridge, MA.
MacKinnon, Catharine A. and Andrea Dworkin (1997) In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
Murphy, Cameron (11 June, 2010) ‘Working with Men to Stop Pornography’ Workshop presentation given at Stop Porn Culture Conference, Wheelock College, Boston.
Stark, Christine and Rebecca Whisnant (Eds) (2004) Not For Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography. Spinifex Press, North Melbourne.
Tankard Reist, Melinda (2009) Getting Reaclass="underline" Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls. Spinifex Press, North Melbourne.
Thompson, Linda (12 June, 2010) ‘International Organizing against the Sex Industry’ Workshop presentation given at Stop Porn Culture Conference, Wheelock College, Boston.
Biographical Notes
Asja Armanda is an ethnologist and philosopher. She is co-founder of the Kareta Feminist Group, the first feminist group in Croatia. She broke the story of the sexual atrocity dimension of genocide as a feminist issue. With Natalie Nenadic, she initiated the Kadic v. Karadzic case in New York against the head of the Bosnian Serbs which pioneered the claim for sexual atrocities as acts of genocide under international law.
Dr Abigail Bray is a Research Fellow at the Social Justice Research Centre at Edith Cowan University. She has published widely in leading international academic journals on anorexia, child sexual abuse, moral panics, and child pornography. She is the author of Hélène Cixous: Writing and Sexual Difference (2004) and Body Talk: A Power Guide for Girls with Elizabeth Reid Boyd (2005). She was an inaugural inductee into the Western Australian Women’s Hall of Fame in 2011. Her forthcoming book Misogyny Re-Loaded will be published by Spinifex. She is a member of Socialist Alliance and the Marxist collective Das Argument.
Caroline is a health educator in Scotland who requested anonymity.
Gail Dines is a Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies at Wheelock College in Boston. A long time radical feminist activist, Dines is a founding member of Stop Porn Culture. Her latest book is Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality (2010).
At non-profit Prostitution Research & Education in San Francisco, Dr Melissa Farley addresses the connections between prostitution, racism, sexism and poverty. The PRE Website is a widely used resource www.prostitutionresearch.com. PRE is affiliated with the Center for World Indigenous Studies and Pacific Graduate School of Psychology. Melissa Farley has written 25 peer-reviewed articles on prostitution and trafficking, and 2 books, Prostitution, Trafficking & Traumatic Stress (2004) and Legal Prostitution and Trafficking in Nevada: Making the Connections (2007).
Nina Funnell is a sexual ethics researcher and opinion writer who has written extensively on issues connected with violence against women. Nina also works as a victim’s rights advocate and was awarded the Australian Human Rights Commission Community (Individual) Award in 2010 for this work. Nina is currently completing her first book on sexting and sexual ethics education.
Ruchira Gupta was inspired to found Apne Aap (http://www.apneaap.org/) after working with courageous young women in the brothels of Mumbai, and make her award-winning documentary, The Selling of Innocents. Well known for highlighting the link between trafficking and prostitution, Ruchira brought groups of survivors to speak before the UN General Assembly in 2008 and 2009. She has been honoured with the Clinton Global Citizen Award in 2009, the UK House of Lords’ Abolitionist Award in 2007, an Emmy in 1995, and was featured in Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn’s 2009 New York Times bestseller, Half the Sky.
Writer and social researcher Maggie Hamilton gives frequent talks and lectures, is a regular media commentator and a keen observer of social trends. Her many books include What Men Don’t Talk About, as well as What’s Happening to Our Girls? and What’s Happening to Our Boys? which look at the 21st century challenges that our boys and girls are facing.
Dr Susan Hawthorne has been involved in the Women’s Liberation Movement for around 40 years and writes fiction, non-fiction and poetry. She is Adjunct Professor in the School of Arts and Social Sciences at James Cook University, Townsville. She received her PhD in Political Science and Women’s Studies at the University of Melbourne and is the author of numerous books including Wild Politics (2002) and Cow (2011).
Professor Sheila Jeffreys is a lesbian feminist who has been an activist against violence against women and the sex industry since the early 1970s in London. She is a founding member of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women Australia. Dr Jeffreys teaches sexual politics and international feminist politics at the University of Melbourne. The Idea of Prostitution (1997/2008) is one of her 7 books on the history and politics of sexuality, with The Industrial Vagina: The political economy of the global sex trade the most recent (2009). Her next books are Man’s Dominion: The rise of religion and the eclipse of women’s rights and a new edition of Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution (both 2011).
Robert Jensen is a Journalism Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He is the author of All My Bones Shake: Seeking a Progressive Path to the Prophetic Voice (Soft Skull Press, 2009); Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity (South End Press, 2007), The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege (City Lights, 2005); Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity (City Lights, 2004); and Writing Dissent: Taking Radical Ideas from the Margins to the Mainstream (Peter Lang, 2002).
Originally from Canada, Christopher N. Kendall now practices as a Barrister at John Toohey Chambers in Perth, Western Australia. Formerly he was the Dean of Law at Murdoch University. Chris has published and lectured throughout North America and Australia on the harms of gay male pornography, sexual violence and gay male domestic abuse. In 2004, he published Gay Male Pornography: An Issue of Sex Discrimination (University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver).
Dr Renate Klein is a long-term women’s health researcher and has written extensively on reproductive technologies and feminist theory. A biologist and social scientist, she was Associate Professor in Women’s Studies at Deakin University in Melbourne until 2006 and a founder of FINRRAGE (Feminist International Network of Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic Engineering). She wrote on the dangers of premature medicalisation of girls in Melinda Tankard Reist’s Getting Reaclass="underline" Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls (2009).