Gail Dines
Feminist author and anti-pornography activist
Gail Dines is an English-American feminist author and activist who studies pornography and its place in culture. She wrote Pornland.
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American Born 1958 in Manchester, United Kingdom
About Gail Dines
Gail Dines was born in England and earned her doctorate at the University of Salford. She taught at Wheelock College in Boston, where she is now professor emerita of sociology and women's studies. She helped form the activist group Stop Porn Culture in 2007. She also founded Culture Reframed, which treats pornography as a public-health problem. In Pornland, she explores how pornography influences the sexuality and relationships of both men and women. She also co-wrote Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality (1997).