Bad Girls: The Media, Sex and Feminism in the '90sCatharine Lumby gives us a controversial and exciting new take on debates surrounding pornography, censorship and the media, arguing that the complaints of sexism which are often levelled at popular culture and the media are simplistic and out-of-date. Feminist attitudes to censorship of the mass media have become a crucible for this debate. Many younger women disagree with campaigns against sexist ads and images in the media and often openly consume pornography themselves. They reject the victim tag for women and have a more complex view of the way power operates in contemporary society. Feminist censorship is puritanical and outmoded, not recognising the ease with which today's young women engage with the media or indeed the aplomb with which these women practise feminism and manage their sexuality. |
