Gail Dines is a director and writer, known for Pornland (2015), Naughty Books (2020) and Raised on Porn (2021).
[on radical feminists] We believe in a future free of oppression, and a cornerstone of this future i...Show more »
[on radical feminists] We believe in a future free of oppression, and a cornerstone of this future is a world free of commodified sex and a media landscape that does not reproduce patriarchal culture. This is a truth we hold dear and there is no study, argument, or theory that will persuade us otherwise. Show less «
My failure to give a detailed definition of porn, or my refusal to celebrate porn as a diverse set o...Show more »
My failure to give a detailed definition of porn, or my refusal to celebrate porn as a diverse set of cultural products, comes not from laziness or oversight but a commitment to a radical political economy. Located within a wider Marxist framework, political economy is a way of studying how media images both produce and reproduce systems of inequality. Show less «