Andrea Dworkin, once called "Feminism's Malcolm X", has been worshipped, reviled, criticized and analysed - but never ignored. The power of her writing, the passion of her ideals and the ferocity of her intellect have spurred the arguments and activism of two generations of feminists. Now the book that she's best known for - in which she provoked ...
This text contains the oral testimony of victims of pornography. Speaking at hearings on an anti-pornography civil rights law, women offer witness to the devastation pornography has caused in their lives. Supported by social science experts and authorities on rape, battery, and prostitution, discounted and opposed by free speech advocates and ...
'I wasn't raped until I was almost ten which is pretty good it seems when I ask around because many have been touched but are afraid to say'. In this stark, powerful and uncompromising novel Andrea Dworkin recreates the experiences of her narrator, a young woman repeatedly raped from childhood to womanhood. The result is "Mercy", a monumental work ...
In this autobiography, feminist Dworkin shares the experiences that shaped her by charting both the personal and the political, including her school years, the women's movement, and her own rigorous pursuit of issues that matter to her.
Always innovative, often provocative, and frequently polarizing, Dworkin has carved out a unique position as one of the women's movement's most influential figures, from the early days of consciousness-raising to the "post-feminist" present. "Heartbreak" reveals for the first time the personal side of Dworkin's lifelong journey as an activist and ...
Dworkin looks at the history of scapegoating--or blaming--of both Jews and women in history and at Israel's cultural attitudes toward women, which she sees as a kind of victimization.
Bringing together a collection of her essays, speeches and commentaries from the last decade, on events ranging from Nicole Brown Simpson's murder to the atrocities committed against Bosnian women in Serbian death camps, the author explores connections between pornography, male power and violence.
Feminist philosopher Dworkin interweaves her search for identity as a writer with her reflections on writing and writers, freedom of speech and censorship, pornography, violence against women, and the politics of our time.
In this collection of her most incisive essays and unpublished speeches--ranging in subjects from her childhood in Camden, New Jersey, her personal and political odyssey, and the pain of her brother's death, to the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and the Hedda Nussbaum child abuse case--Dworkin directs our attention to the core issues in what she ...
Edition: First Edition, First Printing, (So State
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: E.P. Dutton
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780525235958ISBN:0525235957
Description: Near Fine in VG+ jacket. Non Ficition. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book is near-flawless--has very minor shelf wear to one corner. Dj is clean and bright, but is a bit foxed on the back panel due to age. read more
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