In Harm's Way

The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings

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Edited by Catharine A. MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin

Harvard University Press

Due/Published February 1998, 512 pages, paper

ISBN 0674445791

Introduced by essays from MacKinnon and Dworkin, this book contains the oral testimony presented at the hearings--first in Minneapolis in 1983 and up through those before the Massachusetts state legislature in 1992--set to explore the law conceived and drafted by MacKinnon and Dworkin that defines harm done through pornography as a legal injury of sex discrimination warranting civil redress. Exposing the commonplace reality of denigration and suxual subordination due to pornography, here is the record of the witnesses--victims of pornography and authorities on rape, battery, and prostitution--tht refute the notion that pornography is harmless expression that must be protected by the state.