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1946–2005
Also known as Andrea Rita Dworkin
Andrea Rita Dworkin was an American radical feminist and writer best known for her criticism of pornography, which she argued was linked to rape and other forms of violence against women.
An anti-war activist and anarchist in the late 1960s, Dworkin wrote 10 books on radical feminist theory and practice. During the late 1970s and the 1980s, she gained national fame as a spokeswoman for the feminist anti-pornography movement, and for her writing on pornography and sexuality, particularly in Pornography - Men Possessing Women (1981) and Intercourse (1987), which remain her two most widely known books.
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[...]It means that a woman naturally resists force because she wants to be conquered by it. It means that the violence she resists is ultimately what she values. It means that she is responsible for giving violence its sexual value by selecting the violent ma…
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This is refreshing as an immediate follow-up to Paglia's dense, ornate prose, especially as Dworkin bases her arguments in reality rather than in ancient myth. A more grounded counterpart to Paglia's observations.
A map of atrocities laid out as a ouija board. Dworkin’s specter moves the planchette in a pattern that we already know. She spells out the message that has, at times, been a rallying cry and at others been subsumed into the very background noise of sexual vi…
But the solitude changes. At first it is fresh and new, like any lover, an adventure, a ravishing excitement, a sensual derangement: then it gets deeper, tougher, lonelier, not because one wants the closeness of friends but because one doesn't, can't: can bar…