Thirty years on, is "feminist pornography" still a contradiction in terms?
Many magazines are offering podcasting, audio or video or both. It's an excellent way to augment the print content of the magazine, to present information in a different, but still accessible way. Sometimes the content is original and sometimes keyed off a current article.
But how many magazines dig back into their history to compare and contrast today's articles with those of years past. That's what This Magazine's new editor Graham F. Scott is doing in the inaugural version of what he says will be a regular podcast feature.
The November/December 2008 issue has an article by Alison Lee about feminist pornography. Rummaging through the archives, it turned out that 30 years ago there was an essay in the July/August 1978 issue called "Pornography: a feminist view" by freelance writer Myrna Kostash. Scott called and asked how her views have changed, or if they have.
But how many magazines dig back into their history to compare and contrast today's articles with those of years past. That's what This Magazine's new editor Graham F. Scott is doing in the inaugural version of what he says will be a regular podcast feature.
The November/December 2008 issue has an article by Alison Lee about feminist pornography. Rummaging through the archives, it turned out that 30 years ago there was an essay in the July/August 1978 issue called "Pornography: a feminist view" by freelance writer Myrna Kostash. Scott called and asked how her views have changed, or if they have.
posted by D. B. Scott at
3:10 pm
2 Comments:
as if this industry isn't completely incestuous enough, you're stooping low enough to pimp out your own relatives now? yeesh. pathetic.
You're entitled to your opinion and perhaps I should have disclosed, yet again, that Graham Scott is my son (I've been very transparent about this). My thinking was that this was an interesting decision (to mine a longstanding magazine's archive. And since since the initiative was one in which I had no part I made the call to cover this as I would have done for any other magazine in the Canadian market.
I almost rejected this comment because of its use of the term "pimp out". You may think that my posting and motivation were pathetic; but your way of saying it is contemptuous.
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