Pornography and Civil Rights: A New Day for Women's Equality

for libel)....................................................................................83-84

Lovelace, L. and M. McGrady, Ordeal (Secaucus, N. J.: Citadel, 1980) (coercion into pornography documented). . . . 42, 47, 69

Malamuth, N. and E. Donnerstein (eds. ), Pornography and Sexual

Aggression (New York: Academic Press, 1985) (laboratory evidence on connection between pornography and sexual aggression

discussed)....................................................................................... 25

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97

Melendy v. Clinton, et al, Civ. Action No. 85-306, Cmnwlth.

Mass. Supreme Judicial Court (Sept. 27, 1985) (citizen

successfully sues Cambridge City Council to place Ordinance

on bal ot)........................................................................................95

Mil er v. United States, 413 U. S. 15 (1973) (obscenity defined,

held “not speech, ” al owed criminalized against claim of First

Amendment protection)............................................59, 61-62, 68

New York v. Ferber, 458 U. S. 747 (1982) (child pornography

defined as child abuse and al owed criminalized against claim of

First Amendment protection)................................... .............59

Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

(women granted right to vote) .................................................. 12

Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U. S. 537 (1896) (segregation found

constitutional)............................................................................7, 9

Playboy Enterprises, Inc. v. Meese, 639 F. Supp. 581 (D. D. C.

1986) (Playboy censors government for inquiry by let er). . . 63

Public Hearings on Ordinances to Add Pornography as Discrimination

Against Women, Committee on Government Operations, City

Council, Minneapolis, Minn. (Dec. 12-13, 1983) (harms of

pornography documented)...................25, 34-35, 47-48, 73-74

Russel , D., “Pornography and Rape: A Causal Model, ” 9 Political

Psychology 41 (March, 1988) (evidence supports causal relation

between pornography and sexual abuse)...................................25

Reed v. Reed, 404 U. S. 71 (1971) (first case to find statute that

discriminated against women violated Fourteenth Amendment;

statute preferred men over women as estate administrators). . 12

Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 438 U. S. 265

(1978) (serious equality ef orts in medical school admissions

labeled reverse discrimination) ...................................................61

Roe v. Wade, 410 U. S. 113 (1973) (abortion decriminalized as

privacy right) .........................................................................13-14

Stanley v. Georgia, 394 U. S. 557 (1969) (possession of obscenity

in the home protected by right to privacy)..........................14, 27

Zil man, D., Connections between Sex and Aggression (Hil sdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1984) (laboratory studies on

connection between sexually explicit materials and aggressive

attitudes and behaviors against women discussed) . . . . . . . . . . 25