Pornography is the theory, and rape the practice.

Robin Morgan

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Pornography Rape Oppression of women Feminist theory

Author

Robin Morgan

Source

Going Too Far

Genre

Feminist literature

Language

English

Time

1977 1970s 20th century

Occupation

Feminist Writer

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United States

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Citation

Morgan, Robin. Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist. Random House, 1977, ch. 4, sec. 2.

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So true is it that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural. The subjection of women to men being a universal custom, any departure from it quite naturally appears unnatural.

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Mill, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869, ch. 1.

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