Pornography: A Violence Against Women

limerick | gender and sexuality | event notice Sunday September 10, 2006 01:15 by redjade

Pornography: A Violence Against Women, is a national conference hosted by The Limerick Rape Crisis Centre with the support of the Department of Justice Equality and Law Reform and The Health Service Executive.

Pornography: A Violence Against Women (October 23-24, Limerick)

On Monday & Tuesday 23rd & 24th October 2006.
Venue: Greenhills Hotel, Limerick

Pornography: A Violence Against Women, is a national conference hosted by The Limerick Rape Crisis Centre with the support of the Department of Justice Equality and Law Reform and The Health Service Executive.

This conference will explore the impact of pornography on our society. It will address the following questions: Have we become so desensitised to pornography that we ignore it's impact? Are we able to define what pornography means? Does the risk of male violence against women increase with society's growing tolerance of pornography? How can we channel our knowledge of the impact of pornography into direct action?

Among international speakers wioll be prof Diana Russell and Catherine Harper.

Conference Programme (pdf file)
http://www.activelink.ie/downl06/pornography-confprog06.pdf

Registration Form (pdf)
http://www.activelink.ie/downl06/pornography-regformg06.pdf

For further information please contact LRCC
Phone: 061-311511
E-mail: limerickrcc@oceanfree.net