Not for Sale

“As this brilliant and timely collection makes clear, men who respect and value women–not to mention social justice and human rights–must not avert our eyes from the sexual exploitation of women and children all around us.” –Jackson Katz, cofounder, Mentors in Violence Prevention

Christine Stark is a poet, writer, speaker, visual artist and activist of American Indian and European ancestry. Her work has been published in numerous periodicals and anthologies, including Prostitution, Trafficking and Traumatic Stress, The Florida Review, Poetry Motel, Poetry Midwest and Our Choices, Our Lives: Unapologetic Writings on Abortion. She is a co-editor of Not For Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography. She has spoken nationally and internationally and appeared on national TV and NPR’s “Justice Talking”. She has also organized numerous community events on rape, racism, homelessness and poverty. Christine teaches Composition at a Minnesota State Community College in northern Minnesota. Christine is currently a member of the Minnesota Indian Women’s Sexual Assault Coalition.Dr. Rebecca Whisnant, an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Dayton, is co-editor (with Christine Stark) of Not For Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography (Spinifex Press, 2004). She has published in ethics and feminist theory and has recently been named co-editor of several upcoming volumes for the Feminist Ethics and Social Theory Association (FEAST). A longtime anti-pornography educator, she has presented her slideshow and lecture “Exposing Pornography: A Feminist Perspective” to numerous college classes, conferences, and organizations.