STUDY UNIT 4

Question 1

MANY FEMINISTS:

Answer 1

Many feminists argue that pornography should be censored because it harms women.

Question 2

TWO SCHOOL THOUGHT:

Answer 2

1. Liberals
2. Pro-censorship

Question 3

1. LIBERAL SHOULD NOT:

Answer 3

Liberals should not adopt a stance of principled opposition to censoring pornography.

Question 4

This liberal stance is made up of 3 main ingredients:

Answer 4

1. liberals argue that the state is entitled to intervene coercively in the individuals’ lives on the basis of a narrow harm principle which permits governments so to act only in order to protect the physical integrity of individuals.
2. Liberals argue that the consumption of pornography is a matter of private, as opposed to public, morality.
3. Liberals are committed to a right of complete freedom of expression, which makes them hostile in any censorship.

Question 5

LIBERAL SUPPOSE THAT:

Answer 5

Liberals suppose that pornography generally satisfies harmless male preferences.

Question 6

LIBERALS ARE COMMITTED:

Answer 6

Liberals are committed to protecting the private because they want to respect the right of individual autonomy.

Question 7

2. FOR PRO-CENSORSHIP FEMINISTS:

Answer 7

for pro-censorship feminist, the liberal refusal to censor pornography shows the proverty of liberalism.

Question 8

It exposes:

Answer 8

it exposes the inability of liberalism to deal with one of the chief defects of contemporary society, the subordination of women to men.

Question 9

FOR THEM PORNOGRAPHY:

Answer 9

for them pornography is portrayal of women as the perpetual objects for male sexual desires.

Question 10

Pornography is no pornography:

Answer 10

pornography is not pornography because of its sexual character but because of the context of inequality which it eroticizes.

Question 11

PORNOGRAPHY MAKES:

Answer 11

pornography makes inequality to seem sexy.

Question 12

THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN:

Answer 12

Mill’s stated aim is to argue against the legal subordination of women and for what he calls “perfect equality”

Question 13

FOR MILL:

Answer 13

For Mill, the subjection of women comes about because of status quo of inequality.