This videotape starts with Professor Esther Rothblum's Introduction of me on Dec 1, 2011, before I delivered my 22-min speech on "The Origin & Importance of the Term Femicide." I wrote this lecture for a Conference in Amsterdam on Dec 10, 2011, titled Stop Femicide! that was organized by Kurdish women (now postponed til Feb 2012), and for the first Women's Hearings in Cambodia titled "True Voices of Women under the Khmer Rouge Regime on Sexual Violence," on Dec 7 & 8, 2011.
I began my speech by describing the origin of the feminist term femicide, how I defined, then later redefined it. I provided the titles of two anthologies on femicide that I co-edited as part of my largely one-woman campaign to urge feminists in the US to adopt the term femicide. While my efforts were largely unsuccessful, I was invited to speak about femicide at a seminar in Juarez, Mexico, in 2004. There reknowned Mexican scholar and Congresswoman Marcela Lagarde, who had initiated the seminar, declared "Sometimes a book comes along that changes history, and Dr. Russell & Jill Radford's book Femicide: The Politics of Woman Killing (1992) is such a book!" Together with other women leaders, she succeeded in disseminating this term in other regions of Mexico, as well as in other Latin American countries. Adoption of the term femicide there inspired many Latin American feminists to found organizations to combat the epidemic of femicides perpetrated there. Lagarde translated the term femicide into Spanish as feminicide & feminicidio. In 2005, she changed her definition of feminicide. I provide several criticisms of her redefinition of this term in my speech.
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PENN & TELLER SHOW
This is a video of Dr. Russell explaining her theory and some of the scientific evidence that substantiates that the viewing of pornography as a cause some males to rape women and/or girls on the Penn & Teller TV show. She also explains her theory at length in her book, Against Pornography: The Evidence of Harm (available from Amazon.com). She risked being sued by pornographers for breech of copyright laws by including over 100 examples of porn in Against Pornography for which I didn't get permission to publish. Check it out!
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AUDIO RECORDINGS
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AUDIO INTERVIEW OF DIANA E. H. RUSSELL ON GENDERTALK.COM'S WEB RADIO DISCUSSING THE LAKIREDDY BALI REDDY SEXUAL TRAFFICKING CASE
In the following radio program on Gendertalk in June 2000, Dr. Russell is interviewed about her role in initiating and maintaining a boycott of the Berkeley restaurant owned by Mr. Reddy -- a wealthy trafficker and sex salver of girls from India for 15 years.
Lakireddy Bali Reddy, 62, the richest landlord in Berkeley, after UC Berkeley, was arrested in 1999 after being prevented by police officers from escaping the crime scene with 3 of his sex slaves. Two of his sex slaves had been rendered unconscious by carbon monixide poinsoning in one of his apartments where he kept them in one room. Had Reddy called an ambulance in a timely fashion instead of trying to escape, one of these girls, who was pregnant, would almost certainly have survived. Reddy was free on 10 million dollars bail at the time of this interview. Learn Learn more about this horrendous case by carefully following the instructions below.
LEFT CLICK ON THE "MP3 LISTEN" TEXT BOX TO THE LEFT.
(If a single click doesn't work then double-click on it.)
A page will open on which a narrow oblong panel appears, with a grey bullet at the beginning. An interview of another guest will begin. Click on the bullet and drag it over to the right about 3/4 of the way over to listen to Dr. Russell's interivew.
Make sure your computer speakers are turned on and that your volume is up high enough to hear the interview. Enjoy!
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