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Dorchen A. Leidholdt is an activist and leader in the feminist movement against violence against women. Since the mid-1970s, she has counseled and advocated for rape victims, organized against "the media’s promotion of violence against women", served on the legal team for the plaintiff in a precedent-setting sexual harassment case, founded an international nongovernmental organization fighting trafficking in women and children, directed the nation’s largest legal services program for victims of domestic violence, advocated for the enactment and implementation of laws that further the rights of abused women, and represented hundreds of women victimized by intimate partner violence, human trafficking, sexual assault, the threat of honor killing, female genital mutilation, forced and child marriage, and the internet bride trade. Leidholdt has lectured internationally on issues of violence against women and has published articles, book chapters, and two anthologies. ==Past career== From 1975 to 1977, Leidholdt counseled rape victims as a graduate student at the University of Virginia and, after moving to New York City in 1978, became an activist with the Women’s Anti-Rape Coalition, the educational arm of New York Women Against Rape. From 1978 through 1980 she was a leader of the New York City Chapter of Women Against Violence Against Women. Leidholdt is known for her campaigns against pornography and for her suit against ''Hustler'' magazine publisher Larry Flynt. In 1979, after ''Hustler Magazine'' published an issue whose cover showed a naked female body being fed through a meat grinder, she joined Susan Brownmiller, Dolores Alexander (Past President of the National Organization for Women), and other New York City women’s rights leaders in founding the feminist organization, Women Against Pornography (WAP). From 1979 through 1983, she served as a leader and spokesperson for WAP, during which time she joined Gloria Steinem and other feminist leaders in initiating a suit against ''Hustler'' and Larry Flynt, appeared on numerous television and radio programs, organized educational events, and spoke in Washington D.C. before the U.S. Attorney General's Commission on Pornography (a.k.a. The Meese Commission) at the commission's invitation.〔http://cultronix.eserver.org/califia/meese〕 There Leidholdt testified, "Pornography perpetuates the devaluation of women. It sexualizes bigotry, promotes rape and undermines women's self esteem." Flynt published an attack on her in the magazine's "Asshole of the Month" column (July 1985).〔http://www.anusha.com/asshole.htm〕 In 1987 at New York University School of Law, she was the lead organizer of the conference, "The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism", and in 1988 she was the lead organizer of the first global conference on trafficking in women and girls. Leidholdt is an opponent of "sex-positive feminism". Her main argument is that prostitution is exploitative towards women and has historically benefited men, not women. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dorchen Leidholdt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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