Bad Girls: The media, sex and feminism in the 90s

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An examination of feminists and younger women's attitudes to the debates surrounding pornography, censorship and the media. Feminist attitudes to censorship of the mass media have become a crucible for this generational 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 recognizing 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.

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Catharine Lumby has worked at the Sydney Morning Herald, as an adviser to the South Australian Equal Opportunity Commissioner, and as a lecturer in mass communications at Macquarie University. In 1994 she was awarded a Harkness Fellowship and moved to New York to take up residence for 18 months as a visiting scholar at New York University. Catharine now teaches mass communications at Macquarie University and is completing her PhD dissertation on tabloid television.