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1. Martin , Duberman

Andrea Dworkin

From one of America's leading biographers, the definitive story of the radical feminist and anti-pornography activist, based on exclusive access to her archives Fifteen years after her death, Andrea Dworkin remains one of the most important and challenging figures in second-wave feminism. Although frequently relegated to its more radical fringes, Dworkin was without doubt a formidable and influential writer, a philosopher, and an activist-a brilliant figure who inspired and infuriated in equal measure. Her many detractors were eager to reduce her to the caricature of the angry, man-hating feminist who believed that all sex was rape, and as a result, her work has long been misunderstood. It is in recent years, especially with the rise of the #MeToo movement, that there has been a resurgence of interest in her ideas. This biography is the perfect complement to the widely reviewed anthology of her writing, Last Days at Hot Slit, published in 2019, providing much-needed context to her work. Given exclusive access to never-before-published photographs and archives, including her letters to many of the major figures of second-wave feminism, award-winning biographer Martin Duberman traces Dworkin's life, from her abusive first marriage through her central role in the sex and pornography wars of the following decades. This is a vital, complex, and long overdue reassessment of the life and work of one of the towering figures of second-wave feminism.

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Last Days at Hot Slit

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.

American feminist writers

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 146. Chapters: Valerie Solanas, Angela Davis, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Naomi Wolf, L. Frank Baum, Susan Faludi, Adrienne Rich, John Irving, Joanna Russ, Judy Blume, Warren Farrell, H.D., Sonia Johnson, Andrea Dworkin, Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Susan Sontag, Camille Paglia, Christina Hoff Sommers, Octavia E. Butler, Jessie Bernard, Anne Sexton, Charlotte Bunch, Gail Simone, Bell hooks, Mary Daly, Jo Freeman, Susan Block, Ellen Willis, Tristan Taormino, Nel Noddings, Leslie Cagan, Maureen Dowd, Derrick Jensen, Helen Churchill Candee, John Stoltenberg, Zsuzsanna Budapest, Inez Haynes Irwin, Carol J. Adams, Judith Sargent Murray, Grace Paley, Bonnie Bluh, Hanne Blank, Andrea Smith, Gail Dines, Jessica Valenti, Phyllis Chesler, Rita Mae Brown, Joan Kennedy Taylor, Anna J. Cooper, Carol Tavris, Tee Corinne, Tammy Bruce, Eva Moskowitz, Kathryn F. Clarenbach, Ara Wilson, Nancy Friday, Kim Chernin, Helen Gurley Brown, Anastasia M. Ashman, Erica Jong, Ekaterina Sedia, Louise Bryant, Robin Morgan, Kate Millett, Karenna Gore Schiff, Ann Jones, Pam Rosenthal, Elizabeth Martínez, Florence Rush, Maureen Wartski, Sallie Bingham, Susie Bright, Meredith Sue Willis, Diana Cage, Cynthia Enloe, Robert Jensen, Wendy Kaminer, Ellen Peck, Leslie Morgan Steiner, Norah Vincent, Jennifer Weiner, Suzanne La Follette, Joan Slonczewski, Kate McPhelim Cleary, Starhawk, Mary P. Burrill, Diane Anderson-Minshall, Ann Simonton, Ti-Grace Atkinson, Siobhan Brooks, Shira Tarrant, Barbara Deming, Patricia Smith, Marilyn Frye, Sharon Presley, Marilyn French, Arlene Raven, Evelyn Reed, Sharon Smith, Jacob Anderson-Minshall, Harriet Lerner, Karla Jay, Penelope Schott, Dayo Gore, Rita M. Gross, Jenny Toomey, Eliza Farnham, Nancie Caraway, Lynne Hanley, Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Cathy J. Cohen, Peggy Orenstein, Hattie Gossett, Marleen Barr, Laura Kipnis, Floyd Dell, Elizabeth Gould Davis, Gayl Jones, Kat Long, Miriam Cooke, Susan Griffin, Charlotte Painter, Sandy Boucher, Jaclyn Friedman, Sarah Hoagland, Diana Alstad, Meredith Tax, Marianne Schnall, Lydia Sargent. Excerpt: Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 - April 9, 2005) 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. Dworkin was born in Camden, New Jersey, to Harry Dworkin and Sylvia Spiegel. She had one younger brother, Mark. Her father was a schoolteacher and dedicated socialist, whom she credited with inspiring her passion for social justice. Her relationship with her mother was strained, but Dworkin later wrote about how her mother's belief in legal birth control and legal abortion, "long before these were respectable beliefs," inspired her later activism. Though she described her Jewish household as being in many ways dominated by the memory of the Holocaust, it nonetheless provided a happy childhood until the age of nine when an unknown man molested her in a movie theater. When Dworkin was 10, her family moved from the city to the suburbs of Cherry...

1. Jeremy Mark , Robinson

Andrea Dworkin

ANDREA DWORKINOf this study of her work, Andrea Dworkin wrote:It's amazing for me to see my work treated with such passion and respect. There is nothing resembling it in the U.S. in relation to my work.Michael Moorcock wrote of American feminist and writer Andrea Dworkin: 'I think feminism is the most important political movement of our times. People think Andrea's a man-hater. She gets called a Fascist and a Nazi - particularly by the American left, but it's not detectable in her work. To me she seemed like a pussycat... She has an extraordinary eloquence, a kind of magic that moves people'.Dworkin is a very positive writer, always driving onwards for revolution, change and radical thinking. In the introduction to Letters From a War Zone, she writes: 'I am more reckless now than when I started out because I know what everything costs and it doesn't matter. I have paid a lot to write what I believe to be true. On one level, I suffer terribly from the disdain that much of my work has met. On another, deeper level, I don't give a fuck'.Dworkin's life's work balances the individual suffering of the writer with the larger, worldwide suffering of women's subordination, so that, she says, one becomes, on a personal level, immune to pain, while on the larger, global level, the pain of women and children around the world continues to grow, and continues to make her madder and madder: 'I wrote them [essays and speeches] because I believe in writing, in its power to right wrongs, to change how people see and think, to change how and what people know, to change how and why people act. I wrote them out of the conviction, Quaker in origin, that one must speak truth to power. This is the basic premise in my work as a feminist: activism or writing'. Here Dworkin posits her work as a crusade, that's the newspaper term for her kind of polemic, a 'crusade' against silence and violence, against cruelty and inequality, and certainly Dworkin is often portrayed in the media as a crusader, someone who really believes in herself, in her convictions, someone wholly committed, as few others are, to a radical change. Michael Moorcock, in his piece on Andrea Dworkin (New Statesman, 1988) writes: [w]hat she fights against, in everything she writes and does, is male refusal to acknowledge sexual inequality, male hatred of women, male contempt for women, male power'.

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Heartbreak

'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 enormous size, I have come to think that Andrea Dworkin was more important than I thought at the time. Linda Grant, The Jewish Quarterly 'Heartbreak confirms that every bolshy, out-spoken freedom fighter who is the anti-type of standard Western glamour, fast becomes a scapegoat for the hatred of unpopular and hard-to-sell ideas; such as feminism.'  The Crack Magazine '... explosive ... uncompromising courage ... you could not get a voice more intensely alive - in its analysis of inequities which bind and divide women across race and class, its incisive accounts of oppression and the costs of resistance, its eloquent love of creativity, and its take-no-prisoners truth-telling.'  Times Literary Supplement Heartbreak is not the memoir of a victim. Dworkin's tone is dry and humorous. Her personality is warm and likeable and, shockingly, she has a wicked sense of humour. If Dworkin had not come into prominence, first as a victim of rape and later as a campaigner against it, she might even be taking her place alongside Fay Weldon and Margaret Atwood. The Times 'pleasingly bathetic - her persecutors are finally reduced to their proper size.' Charlotte Raven, New StatesmanAlways innovative, often provocative, and frequently polarizing, Andrea Dworkin 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.  She wrote thirteen books, ranging across feminist theory, fiction and poetry.  Andrea Dworkin died in April 2005.

1. Andrea , Dworkin

Intercourse

The book that Andrea Dworkin’s best known for-in which she provoked the argument that ultimately split apart the feminist movement-is being reissued for the young women and men of the twenty-first century