Andrea Dworkin (1946–2005)
Auteur de Intercourse
A propos de l'auteur
Andrea Dworkin is one of the most controversial and influential feminist thinkers of our day. She has spoken at colleges, universities, and rallies all over the world and is the co-author (with Catharine A. MacKinnon) of civil rights legislation recognizing pornography as legally actionable sex afficher plus discrimination. She is the author of thirteen books, including Pornography, Intercourse, and, most recently, Scapegoat afficher moins
Œuvres de Andrea Dworkin
In Harm's Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (1997) — Directeur de publication — 43 exemplaires
Intercourse (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition): The Twentieth Anniversary Edition (2009) 3 exemplaires
Why So-Called Radical Men Love and Need Pornography 2 exemplaires
The Wild Cherries of Lust 1 exemplaire
The Unremembered: Searching for Women at the Holocaust Memorial Museum - in Ms. magazine, Volume V, Number 3,… 1 exemplaire
Geschlechtsverkehr (Livre en allemand) 1 exemplaire
Class Struggle 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New Millenium (2003) — Contributeur — 198 exemplaires
Wild Women: Contemporary Short Stories by Women Celebrating Women (1994) — Contributeur — 150 exemplaires
Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography (2005) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 64 exemplaires
The Woman Who Lost Her Names: Selected Writings of American Jewish Women (1980) — Contributeur — 51 exemplaires
Women in the Trees: U.S. Women's Short Stories About Battering and Resistance, 1839-1994 (1996) — Contributeur — 39 exemplaires
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- Date de naissance
- 1946-09-26
- Date de décès
- 2005-04-09
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Études
- Bennington College
- Relations
- Stoltenberg, John (husband)
- Courte biographie
- American feminist and author, an outspoken critic of sexual politics, particularly of the victimizing effects of pornography on women.
Dworkin began writing at an early age. During her undergraduate years at Vermont's Bennington College (B.A., 1968), she became involved with the student demonstrations against the Vietnam War. Her experience in New York City's Women's House of Detention following an arrest during one such demonstration led her to analyze critically what she perceived as the male subjugation of women. A number of books, such as Woman Hating: A Radical Look at Sexuality (1974) and Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics (1976), followed, along with studies of pornography, which, according to Dworkin, is one of the main weapons men deploy to control women. In collaboration with the feminist lawyer Catharine A. MacKinnon, Dworkin wrote Pornography and Civil Rights: A New Day for Women's Equality (1988). Together they also drafted a controversial ordinance that defined pornography as a form of sex discrimination and enabled victims of sexual assault to sue the makers and distributors of pornography in cases where a specific piece of pornography could be proved to be a direct cause of the assault. Several cities passed the ordinance in the 1980s, but it was later ruled unconstitutional by federal courts.
A lesbian, Dworkin also published in Gay Community News and other periodicals. Later books include Right-wing Women: The Politics of Domesticated Females (1983), Intercourse (1987), Letters from a War Zone (1989), and Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation (2000). Dworkin also wrote a collection of short stories and the autobiographical novels Ice and Fire (1986) and Mercy (1991). Her autobiography, Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant, was published in 2002.
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