Dines addressing the Cambridge Union, February 2011
Born
(1958-07-29) 29 July 1958 (age 65)[1]
Manchester, England
Occupation
Sociologist
Known for
Radical feminism
Opposition to pornography
Title
Professor emerita of sociology and women's studies, Wheelock College, Boston, MA
Spouse
David Levy
Children
1
Awards
Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in North America
Academic background
Education
BSc and PhD in sociology, University of Salford
Thesis
Towards a Sociology of Cartoons: A Framework for Sociological Investigation with Special Reference to Playboy Sex Cartoons (1990)
Academic work
Notable works
Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality (2010)
Website
gaildines.com
Gail Dines (born 29 July 1958) is professor emerita of sociology and women's studies at Wheelock College in Boston, Massachusetts.[2]
A radical feminist, Dines specializes in the study of pornography.[2] Described in 2010 as the world's leading anti-pornography campaigner,[3] she is a founding member of Stop Porn Culture and founder of Culture Reframed, created to address pornography as a public-health crisis.[2][4] Dines is co-author of Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality (1997) and author of Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality (2010).
Dines 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". The exposure of teenage girls to the images affects their sense of sexual identity,[3] 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".[5]
^"Dines, Gail". Library of Congress. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
^ abc"Gail Dines". Wheelock College. Archived from the original on 6 December 2017.
^ abBindel, Julie (2 July 2010). "The truth about the porn industry". The Guardian.
^"About us". Culture Reframed. Archived from the original on 6 December 2017. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
^Dines, Gail (2010). Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality, Boston: Beacon Press, p. 102.
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