Catherine Lenore Itzin (born 29 May 1944, Iowa City, Iowa

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, U.S.

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 – died 9 March 2010) was an Honorary Research Fellow in the Violence, Abuse and Gender Relations Research Unit, Department of Applied Social Studies at the University of Bradford

University of Bradford

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. She was for a time a member of the Executive Committee of the British

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 Liberty

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 pressure group.

The editor of Pornography: Women, Violence and Civil Liberties, a collection of essays published by Oxford University Press

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 which explores the impact pornography

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has on the perception and treatment of women.

Death

Itzin died in 2010, aged 65, from duodenal cancer. She was survived by her husband, Wojciech Itzin-Borowy, and their children, Caitlin and Nicholas, as well as her mother, brother and sister.