Andrea Dworkin

In 'Intercourse', Andrea Dworkin argues that in a male supremacist society, sex between men and women constitutes a central part of women's subordination to men.

Intercourse

Woman Hating

Presents a study of the damaging effect of pornography and its ramifications on society. From publisher description.

Men Possessing Women

Pornography

Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics

Our Blood

'This final, short book, is the unfolding development of a life and a mind. It reminds us that she was never primarily a political activist, but a writer and, to herself, a scholar ... Since she died last year, a victim of her en.

The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant

Heartbreak

Selections from the work of radical feminist author Andrea Dworkin, famous for her antipornography stance and role in the feminist sex wars of the 1980s. Radical feminist author Andrea Dworkin was a caricature of misandrist extremism in the popular imagination and a polarizing figure within the women's movement, infamous for her antipornography stance and her role in the feminist sex wars of the 1980s. She still looms large in feminist demands for sexual freedom, evoked as a censorial demagogue, more than a decade after her death. Among the very first writers to use her own experiences of rape and battery in a revolutionary analysis of male supremacy, Dworkin was a philosopher outside and against the academy who wrote with a singular, apocalyptic urgency. Last Days at Hot Slit brings together selections from Dworkin's work, both fiction and nonfiction, with the aim of putting the contentious positions she's best known for in dialogue with her literary oeuvre. The collection charts her path from the militant primer Woman Hating (1974), to the formally complex polemics of Pornography (1979) and Intercourse (1987) and the raw experimentalism of her final novel Mercy (1990). It also includes “Goodbye to All This” (1983), a scathing chapter from an unpublished manuscript that calls out her feminist adversaries, and “My Suicide” (1999), a despairing long-form essay found on her hard drive after her death in 2005.

The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin

Last Days at Hot Slit

A collection of her most incisive essays and unpublished speeches, Life and Death makes it clear why Dworkin has found her place in the canon of modern political thought. She begins here with a poignant autobiographical piece, in which she recounts with rare tenderness her childhood in Camden, New Jersey, her political odyssey, and the crushing pain of her brother's death. Lending her hand to tragic current events, or what she calls "emergencies", like the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson, the Hedda Nussbaum child abuse case, and the mass murder of female students at a college in Montreal, Dworkin makes clear in her inimitable way the obvious things we stubbornly fail to notice. Finally, she guides us back to the core issues at stake in women's lives - pornography, domestic violence, rape, and prostitution - and reminds us that even after decades of feminist so-called progress, gender is an ongoing war.

Life and Death

The nonconformist and social commentator discusses her experiences as a woman and a battered wife, her life of demonstrating, organizing, and addressing other women and the government, and the current state of the women's movement

Letters from a war zone

Argues that the Amercian political right mobilizes women by exploiting their fears, and discusses the issues of abortion, sexual equality, anti-Semitism, and anti-feminism

Right-wing Women

A controversial novel by the author of Pornography, Intercourse and Ice & Fire. Mercy is an intelligent and couargeous woman who, as a nine-year-old girl, was molested by a man in a dark theatre. The repercussions of this act follow her through her life. Gloria Steinem says of Dworkin: "In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race evolve. Andrea is one of them".

Mercy

La 4e de couverture indique : "Militante féministe, Andrea Dworkin a voulu comprendre pourquoi des femmes rejettent le féminisme et n'hésitent pas à se montrer racistes et homophobes. Comment expliquer cet apparent paradoxe ? Dans un contexte où les femmes sont subordonnées aux hommes, les femmes de droite concluent ce qui leur paraît le marché le plus avantageux : en échange de leur conformité aux rôles traditionnels, la droite leur promet la sécurité, le respect, l'amour. Elles font donc le pari qu'il est préférable de prendre le parti du patriarcat plutôt que de combattre ce système dont la violence est trop souvent meurtrière. Mais la droite et l'antiféminisme se fondent sur le mépris des femmes et encouragent l'exploitation de leur sexualité : "ce que font les femmes de droite pour survivre au système de classes de sexe ne signifie pas qu'elles y survivront : si elles sont tuées, ce sera probablement aux mains de leur mari". Une réflexion brutale et sans concession, qui rappelle l'importance de la révolte féministe. La sociologue Christine Delphy, qui signe la préface, redonne à Andrea Dworkin la place qui lui revient dans l'histoire du féminisme, et le politologue Frédérick Gagnon rappelle dans sa postface la pertinence des analyses d'Andrea Dworkin pour comprendre le sort des femmes dans la vie politique des Etats-Unis des années 2000, toujours marquée par la misogynie et l'antiféminisme."

Les femmes de droite

On Yom Kippur, Jews of antiquity would sacrifice two goats: one as an offering to a harsh and judging god, the other turned loose in the wilderness as a carrier of the group's sins. But throughout history, says Andrea Dworkin, women and Jews themselves have served as society's scapegoats. From the Inquisition, when women were targeted as witches and Jews as heretics, to the Nazi assault on Jewish and female bodies, these groups have been doomed to the twin fates of slaughter and exile. In Scapegoat Dworkin draws on history, literature, philosophy, and politics to create a series of pairings -- homeland/home, pogrom/rape, Palestinians/prostitutes -- that elucidate the misogyny and anti-Semitism of the past millennium's atrocities. Sure to incite debate, Dworkin presents a startling new view of how Nazism waged war on the female body. She offers a profound indictment of Israel's "scapegoating" of the Palestinians and critiques the supremacy Israeli men exert over Israeli women. Most provocatively, she imagines a world in which women betray the men of their ethnic/racial groups to fight for their own rights. Dworkin's exploration of when and how scapegoats themselves use violence will shock and disturb -- and no reader will look at the world the same way again.

The Jews, Israel and Womens' Liberation

Scapegoat

Short Stories

The New Womans Broken Heart

Feminism and the "radical" Left

Marx and Gandhi Were Liberals

Discours et prophéties sur la politique sexuelle

Notre sang

Marx and Gandhi were liberals

A Novel

Ice and Fire

Intercourse is a book that moves through the sexed world of dominance and submission. It moves in descending circles, not in a straight line, and as in a vortex each spiral goes down deeper. Its formal model is Dante's Inferno; its lyrical debt is to Rimbaud; the equality it envisions is rooted in the dreams of women, silent generations, pioneer voices, lone rebels, and masses who agitated, demanded, cried out, broke laws, and even begged. The begging was a substitute for retaliatory violence: doing bodily harm back to those who use or injure you. I want women to be done with begging. The public censure of women as if we are rabid because we speak without apology about the world in which we live is a strategy of threat that usually works. Men often react to women's words - speaking and writing - as if they were acts of violence; sometimes men react to women's words with violence. So we lower our voices. Women whisper. Women apologize. Women shut up. Women trivialize what we know. Women shrink. Women pull back. Most women have experienced enough dominance from men - control, violence, insult, contempt - that no threat seems empty. Intercourse does not say, forgive me and love me. It does not say, I forgive you, I love you. For a woman writer to thrive (or, arguably, to survive) in these current hard times, forgiveness and love must be subtext. No. I say no. Intercourse is search and assertion, passion and fury; and its form - no less than its content - deserves critical scrutiny and respect.---- PREFACE

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