# Feminism & Pornography, by Drucilla Cornell (Oxford University Press, 2000). This edited volume provides excellent information about the pornography debate among feminists. Includes articles from many different perspectives: those who use pornography, who fight against it, those who are trying to change its meaning. Examines the role of law in regulating pornography, how the meaning & definition of pornography has changed over time, the unionization question, whether pornography is art, the free speech question, and so forth.
Also by Cornell: The Imaginary Domain: Abortion, Pornography, Sexual Harassment (Routledge, 1995) and At the Heart of Freedom: Feminism, Sex and Equality (Princeton UP, 1998)
# Only Words, by Catharine MacKinnon (Harvard UP, 1993). About the philosophical and legal basis of efforts to make pornography illegal (ordinances passed in passed in Minneapolis & Indianapolis.
# Female Sexual Slavery, by Kathleen Barry (New York UP, 1979). Classic cross-cultural study and analysis. Deals with the relationship between the pornography industry in the US and Europe and its relationship to the worldwide institutionalized sexual slavery of women and children. Barry argues that pornography is a form of prostitution, and therefore there can be no separation of pornography from the institution of prostitution more generally.
# Making Violence Sexy, by Diana E. H. Russell (NY: Teacher’s College Press, 1993). Presents anti-pornography feminist view.
# Pornography: Woman, Violence, and Civil Liberties, edited by Diana Itzin. Collection of essays that explore civil rights/liberties dimension of pornography.
# The Invention of Pornography, edited by Lynn Hunt (Zone Books, 1993). Essays that explore the historical development of pornography, changes in laws & definitions, etc.
# Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women’s Rights, by Nadine Strossen (Scribners, 1995).
# Women and Prostitution: A Social History, by Bonnie Bullogh (Promethius Books, 1987).
