Catherine Itzin is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Violence, Abuse and Gender Relations Research Unit, Department of Applied Social Studies at the University of Bradford. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the National Council for Civil Liberties.

"Reading Pornography: Women, Violence and Civil Liberties is an unsettling experience for a libertarian....The evidence that pornography can produce harm is pretty compelling."--The Times (London)

"The most sophisticated anti-porn arguments can be found in Pornography: Women, Violence, and Civil Liberties, a vast and impressive volume edited by Catherine Itzin....It is a comprehensive survey of all the old arguments and an invaluable introduction to new feminist thinking."--Tribune

"The book does represent a new stage in the anti-pornography campaign, inching the argument out of the feminist world--where, arguably it has been resoundingly defeated--into the wider legislative area."--New Statesman

"An important and long promised collection of essays."--Everywoman

"Presents in a comprehensive fashion one side of the debate over the regulation of pornography....Those who are most strongly in favor of non-regulation owe it to themselves and their followers to engage seriously with the essays in this volume."--The Law and Politics Book Review