Laura Lederer, senior director for global projects on trafficking in persons at the U.S. Department

Laura Lederer, senior director for global projects on trafficking in persons at the U.S. Department of State, is an activist and writer whose efforts against sex trafficking led her to be called “Founding mother of a new human rights movement.’In 1980, she edited "Take Back the Night: Women on Pornography,” a collection of essays on the relationship between pornography and rape, battery and molestation. 44 years later this book is as relevant and crucial as it was then, even more so due to the mainstreaming of violent pornography, the ongoing sexualization of girls, and the development of the web and its enabling of 24/7/365 access to pornographic material. “The title of this book, Take Back the Night, reflects this growing realization of the links among crimes against women. The pollution of our media with sexist articles, programming and advertisements, and the increasing amounts of pornography readily available, are hardly questioned. Rapes, muggings and sexual harassment of women at all times, but especially at night, are the norm. That we have been unable to walk the streets after dark without a male to protect us from all the rest of the men has been assumed in this society for so long that people can hardly imagine a culture in which this would not be the case.”- Laura Lederer, book introduction to Take Back the Night  -- source link

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