Gail Dines received her Ph.D. from Salford University in England. She is Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at Wheelock College in Boston. Dr. Dines is co-editor of the best-selling media textbook, Gender, Race and Class in Media (2^nd edition, Sage, 2002), used in over 200 colleges across the country. She is co-author of Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality (Routledge, 1998). Her numerous articles on pornography, the media and violence have appeared in academic journals and books, as well as in magazines and newspapers such as Newsweek, Time, Working Woman, New York Times, Boston Globe, USA Today, Daily Mail (England). Dr. Dines has also been on shows such as Donohue, Sally Jesse Raphael, Entertainment Tonight, and is a frequent guest on radio shows across the country. She is featured in a number of documentary films, including The Strength to Resist: The Media's Impact on Women and Girls from Cambridge Documentary Films.