![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However, the experiences of the many disabled people within Britain’s most dangerous industry have gone largely unrecognised by historians. ![]() Through subversive readings, they argued, women could imagine a more liberated future.Ĭoalmining was a notoriously dangerous industry and many of its workers experienced injury and disease. Pro-sex feminist such as Ellen Willis and Gayle Rubin countered Gramscian interpretations, contending that women and men could separate fantasy from reality in their private use of smut. Feminists including Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin excoriated the pornography industry, focusing on its corporate exploitation of women and outlining the society-wide consequences of men’s consumption of pornography. While most agreed that women formed a separate class, they differed on how that class was formed, whether sexual violence played a role in constituting it, and if pornography contributed to the oppression of women as a group. In their analyses, they considered three core Marxist concepts: class, commodity, and consumption. Feminists on both sides of the 1980s sex wars used Marxist theory to analyze sexual violence, its relationship to pornography, and whether pornography liberated or oppressed women. ![]()
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