Wheelock College
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Motto	"To Improve the lives of children and families."
Established	Founded 1888, Chartered 1939
Type	Private
Endowment	US$ 38.3 Million
President	Jackie Jenkins-Scott
Academic staff	99 full-time equivalent
Undergraduates	871
Postgraduates	366
Location	Boston, Massachusetts,  United States
Campus	Urban 1.5 acres (6,100 m2)
Nickname	Wildcats
Affiliations	Colleges of the Fenway
Website	www.wheelock.edu

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Wheelock College is a private, coeducational college located in Boston, Massachusetts. The school was founded in 1888 by Lucy Wheelock. The mission of Wheelock College is to improve the lives of children and families. Wheelock College is a member of the Colleges of the Fenway consortium.

History[link]

• 1888: Lucy Wheelock began a kindergarten teacher training class at the former Chauncy-Hall School.
• 1914: Moved to current location on the Riverway in Boston, Massachusetts
• 1939: Lucy Wheelock retires after 50 years as director. Wheelock School incorporated as nonprofit Wheelock College. Authorized to grant Bachelor of Science degree.^[1]
• 1950s: Established graduate degree programs and research programs

Academics[link]

Wheelock offers academic programs through the schools of Arts and Sciences, Education and Child Life, and Social Work and Family Studies.

Undergraduate majors:

• The Arts
• American Studies
• Child Life
• Communications
• Early Childhood Education
• Elementary Education
• Psychology & Human Development
• The Humanities
• Juvenile Justice & Youth Advocacy
• Math and Science
• Political Science and Global Studies (Fall 2012)
• Social Work
• Special Education

Graduate Programs:

• Child Life and Family Centered Care
• Early Childhood Education
• Integrated Elementary and Special Education
• Language & Literacy Studies
• Organizational Leadership
• Social Work
• Social Work/Organizational Leadership Dual Degree
• Teacher of Reading

Online Degree Programs: Wheelock offers two master's degree programs online:

• Educational Studies: Achieving Excellence in Teaching Math and Science
• Organizational Leadership

Athletics[link]

The Wheelock Wildcats participate in eleven NCAA Division III sports, competing in the New England Collegiate Conference.

Women's Athletic Teams:

• Field Hockey
• Lacrosse
• Soccer
• Basketball
• Softball
• Cross-Country

Men's Athletic Teams:

• Basketball
• Lacrosse
• Tennis
• Cross-Country
• Soccer

In addition to the varsity teams, there are intramural competitions between the Colleges of the Fenway.

See also[link]

• Bank Street College of Education
• Erikson Institute
• Pacific Oaks College

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Wildcats Athletics
• Wheelock Family Theatre

Coordinates: 42°20′30.1″N 71°6′22.9″W / 42.341694°N 71.106361°W / 42.341694; -71.106361

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Gail Dines is an English–American feminist anti-pornography activist, author, professor, and lecturer. An academic,^[1] she has also been described as "The world's leading anti-pornography campaigner".^[1]

Biography[link]

Dines was born in Manchester, England^[1] and studied for a B.Sc degree Salford University, and then a PhD is Sociology at the same institution.^[3] She moved to Israel in 1980 at the age of 22, where she married and became a feminist, and then to the United States in 1986.^[1] Since 1986 she has been at Wheelock College in Boston, where she is Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies^[4] and Chair of the American Studies department.^[5]

Career[link]

Dines is the author of three books including Pornland, published in 2010. Her articles have appeared in the New Left Project, the Journal of Violence Against Women, CounterPunch, and the International Encyclopedia of Communication,^[6] and also in popular general-interest publications including Newsweek, Time, Working Woman, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, USA Today, the Huffington Post, and the Daily Mail.^[4] Dines is a founding member of Stop Porn Culture^[4] and co-founder of the National Feminist Anti-Pornography Movement.^[5] She has given lectures and participated in formal debates regarding pornography's effect on society at universities.

In 2011, Dines was invited alongside fellow anti-pornography activist Shelley Lubben to debate against Anna Span at the University of Cambridge when it proposed the motion "This house believes that pornography does a good public service."^[7] Dines did not sway the house, which decided 231 to 187 against her views.^[8][9] Dines said her opponents won because the chamber consisted mostly of "18-22 year old males who are using pornography on a regular basis."^[10]

Advocacy[link]

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Dines's view is that pornography distorts the user's view of sexuality^[11] and makes more difficult the establishment of real-life intimate relationships with women.^[1] Dines maintains that modern pornography is cruel and violent,^[1] unlike earlier forms of pornography with which the general public may be familiar,^[11] and has the effect of tending to generally degrade the position of women in society.^[1] She also advances the position that the prevalence of hardcore pornography is a contributing factor in increasing "demand" for sex trafficking.^[12][13]

Reception[link]

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Dines' recent work, Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked our Sexuality has met with mixed reviews, with many critics citing the use of inflammatory language in the place of genuine academic research. Publishers Weekly writes

Dines's argument rests on a compelling, close reading of the imagery and narrative content of magazines, videos, and marketing materials; what is missing, however, is a similarly compelling body of research on how these images are used by viewers, aside from Dines's own anecdotal evidence.

The author's appropriation of addiction terminology — viewers are called users, habitual viewing is an addiction, and pornography featuring teenagers is called Pseudo-Child Pornography or PCP — is distracting and suggests that rhetorical tricks are needed because solid argumentation is lacking.

Likewise, Dines's opponents are unlikely to be swayed by her speculation tying porn viewing to rape and child molestation, nor by the selective sources she draws on to support her point (convicted sex offenders).

^[14] Mike Tribby of Booklist said that

[I]t should be remembered that to adequately discuss porn, one must adequately describe it.

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Dines has also been criticized by some feminists of attempting to foment moral panic, particularly in opposition to sex work and sex workers' rights, rather than advancing an academically rigorous position.^[16][17]

In 2007 Dines wrote an article on the Duke lacrosse case in which she suggested "we should put some of the focus back on the men in this case" and their behavior because "they saw the hiring of two black women to strip as a legitimate form of male entertainment."^[18] Writer Cathy Young criticised what she saw as Dines' double-standards, stating "the same feminists who rightly tell us that a rape victim should not have to be an angel to deserve support apply such a different standard to men who may be falsely accused of rape.^[19]

Dines' writing and positions have come under fire from other academics, including Ronald Weitzer of George Washington University, whose essay "Pornography: the Need For Solid Evidence" critiques Dines' writing (specifically Pornland) for being poorly researched and in strong opposition to the existing body of legitimate research on pornography.^[20]

Personal life[link]

Dines is married to David Levy, a teacher at UMass-Boston.^[21] They have a son.^[22]

Publications[link]

Books[link]

• Dines, Gail (2010). PornLand: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality. Boston: Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-4452-0. 
• Dines, Gail; Robert Jensen, Ann Russo (1997). Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-91813-8. 
• Dines, Gail (2010). Dines, Gail; Humez, Jean. eds. Gender, Race and Class in Media: A Critical Reader (3rd ed.). California: Sage publications. ISBN 978-1-4129-7441-7.  (First edition published 1995 under the title Gender, Race and Class in Media: A Text Reader)

Selected articles[link]

• Gail Dines (July 6, 2010). "Adventures in Pornland". Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gail-dines/adventures-in-pornland_b_636381.html. Retrieved September 25, 2010. 
• Gail Dines (June 23, 2008). "Penn, Porn and Me". CounterPunch. http://www.counterpunch.org/dines06232008.html. Retrieved September 25, 2010. 
• Gail Dines (1998). "King Kong and the White Woman: Hustler Magazine and the Demonization of Black Masculinity". Journal of Violence Against Women. http://gaildines.com/2009/09/king-kong-and-the-white-woman/. Retrieved September 25, 2010. 

References[link]

External links[link]

• Gail Dines's website
• Brief biography at Wheelock College