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Andrea Dworkin was born on September 26, 1946, in Camden, New Jersey, to Harry Dworkin and Sylvia Spiegel. Her father was the grandson of a Russian Jew who fled Russia when he was 15 years old in order to escape military service, and her mother was the child of Jewish immigrants from Hungary. [22] She had one younger brother, Mark.
Andrea Dworkin, 45, is a New York-based radical feminist writer, political activist and dedicated anti-pornographer whose views have led to her being famously misrepresented as a man-hater. Her ...
Dworkin returned to the United States and divorced her husband. She worked menial jobs before becoming the assistant to Muriel Rukeyser, a poet, who encouraged Dworkin to write. At 27, Dworkin released Woman Hating , which included her critique of pornography. She also wrote about violence against women by examining fairy tales and myths.
Apr 8, 2020 · Feminism, LGBT. April 8, 2020. It was a sunny day in Key West in the mid-1970s. Andrea Dworkin and I were walking along a palm-shrouded sidewalk, she in a T-shirt and bib overalls, I in a tank top and shorts. Her dark hair was full and frizzy, mine was blond and curly. As we passed an evidently tipsy older man, he greeted us “Hel-lo, boys!”.
Apr 20, 1990 · The Prisoner of Sex. W hen John Stoltenberg, the widower of the feminist writer and anti-pornography activist Andrea Dworkin, the woman whom Gloria Steinem called the feminist movement’s “Old ...
A lightning rod for controversy, American feminist Andrea Dworkin denounced violence against women, advocated women’s self-defense, and drafted groundbreaking legislation claiming that pornography violated women’s civil rights. In 1974, Dworkin and Ricki Abrams co-wrote Woman Hating in which they charged that pornography incited violence towards women and that consensual sex subjugated women.
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Review of Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin, edited by Johanna Fateman and Amy Scholder (MIT Press, 2019).. Between 1968 and 1972, the radical feminist movement broke through across US culture and politics, engaging in a whirlwind of direct actions, commanding attention that frightened the powers that be, and winning a series of improbable victories.
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