Gail Dines
| Gail Dines | |
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Dines in Westmount, Quebec on October 2013
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| Born |
29 July 1958 Manchester, England |
| Nationality | Anglo-American |
| Occupation | Sociologist |
| Known for | Opposition to pornography |
| Title | Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, and Chair of American Studies, Wheelock College, Boston, Massachusetts |
| Spouse(s) | David Levy |
| Children | 1 |
| Awards | Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in North America |
| Website | www |
| Academic background | |
| Education | BSc, PhD in sociology (1990), University of Salford, Manchester |
| Thesis title | Towards a Sociology of Cartoons: A Framework for Sociological Investigation with Special Reference to Playboy Sex Cartoons |
| Academic work | |
| Notable works | Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality (2010) |
| TEDx talk by Gail Dines | |
 Growing Up in a Pornified Culture via TEDx Talks on YouTube
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Gail Dines (born 29 July 1958) is Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at Wheelock College in Boston, Massachusetts.
Dines specializes in the study of pornography. She is co-author of Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality (1997) and author of Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality (2010). She is also a founding member of Stop Porn Culture, and one of the chief editors of the journal Sexualization, Media, and Society.Julie Bindel described her in 2010 as the world's leading anti-pornography campaigner.
Dines argues that boys and men are exposed online to pornography that is increasingly cruel and violent toward women. The exposure of teenage girls to the images affects their sense of sexual identity. The result, Dines writes, is that women are "held captive by images by ultimately tell lies about women" and that "contemporary idealized femininity" has been reduced to the "hypersexualized, young, thin, toned, hairless, and, in many cases, surgically enhanced woman with a come-hither look on her face."
Dines was born in Manchester, England. She obtained her BSc from Salford University and her PhD in sociology from the same institution, for a thesis titled Towards a Sociology of Cartoons: A Framework for Sociological Investigation with Special Reference to "Playboy" Sex Cartoons.
She moved to Israel in 1980 at the age of 22, where she married and became a feminist, and then moved to the United States in 1986. Since 1986, she has been at Wheelock College in Boston, where she is Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies and Chair of the American Studies Department.
Dines is the author of three books, including Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked our Sexuality (2010). Her articles have appeared in a variety of journals and newspapers, including The New York Times, Newsweek, and Time. She is a founding member of Stop Porn Culture and co-founder of the National Feminist Anti-Pornography Movement.
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