“What will women do? Is there a plan? If not, why not?”
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Andrea Dworkin
Andrea Rita Dworkin was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo works: nine books of non-fiction, two novels, and a collection of short stories. Another three volumes were co-written or co-edited with US constitutional law professor and feminist activist Cath…
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culture · American feminist writer and activist (1946–2005) · essayist · novelist · literary critic · women's rights activist · journalist · writer · feminist · also Andrea Dworkin, Andrea Rita Dworkin, Dworkin
Born 26 September 1946 · Died 9 April 2005 · Q241398
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2026· 10 entries
“any explanation other than rape”
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“when the freedom of speech I kept hearing about was going to apply to me”
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“A big part of the fight was facing facts; and facts had a lot to do with what men had done to us, how men used us with or without our own complicity.”
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“s right, execute -- rapists and the state should not intervene. I couldn”
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“in both text and pictures promotes both rape and child sexual abuse”
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“I love John with my heart and soul,”
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“I was the worst assistant in the history of the world. But Muriel kept me on because she believed in me as a writer.”
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“s belief in legal birth control and abortion,”
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Public attention spiked: 2,936 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.2× the usual 694, with 0 article edits.
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2025· 1 entry
Publishers Weekly: Picador to Reissue Trio of Andrea Dworkin Titles
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2019· 1 entry
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Why Andrea Dworkin’s radical feminism is more relevant than ever
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2018· 1 entry
Bustle: Andrea Dworkin Is The Controversial Feminist Writer We Need Right Now
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2015· 1 entry
By John Stoltenberg, based on Dworkin's unpublished writing
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2005· 18 entries
Democracy Now: Gloria Steinem Remembers Feminist Writer and Activist Andrea Dworkin
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The Nation: Andrea Dworkin, 1946-2005
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The Independent: Andrea Dworkin: 'Money speaks, but with a male voice'
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Filmmaker: ANDREA DWORKIN
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Died 2005-04-09.
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“Los hombres de Derecha quieren esconder la pornografía, y los hombres de Izquierda quieren esconder su significado.”
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“Somente quando a masculinidade estiver morta — e ela perecerá quando a feminilidade devastada não mais sustentá-la — somente então nós saberemos o que é sermos livres.”
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“O conceito masculino utópico que é a premissa da pornografia é este — já que a masculinidade é estabelecida e confirmada contra os corpos brutalizados das mulheres, os homens não precisam agredir uns aos outros; em outras palavras, as mulheres absorvem a agressão masculina de modo que os homens fiquem a salvo disto.”
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“O desejo de dominação é uma besta voraz. Nunca há corpos quentes suficientes para saciar sua fome monstruosa. Uma vez viva, essa besta cresce e cresce, se alimentando de toda vida ao seu redor, percorrendo a terra para encontrar novas fontes de nutrição. Essa besta vive em cada homem que refestela-se na servidão feminina.”
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“A genialidade de qualquer sistema escravista se encontra nas dinâmicas que isolam os escravos uns dos outros, que ocultam a realidade de uma condição comum, e tornam inconcebível a rebelião unida contra o opressor.”
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“Sexismo é a fundação onde toda tirania é construída. Toda forma social de hierarquia e abuso é moldada a partir da dominação do macho sobre a fêmea.”
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“O fato que todas nós somos treinadas da infância em diante para sermos mães significa que nós todas somos treinadas para devotar nossas vidas aos homens, quer eles sejam nossos filhos ou não; que todas nós somos treinadas a forçar outras mulheres a exemplificar a falta de qualidades que caracteriza a construção cultural da feminilidade.”
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“The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.”
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“No tempo em que somos mulheres, medo é tão familiar para nós como ar. É o nosso elemento. Nós vivemos nele, nós inalamos ele, nós exalamos ele, e na maioria do tempo nós nem notamos isso. Ao invés de "Eu tenho medo", nós dizemos, "Eu não quero", ou "Eu não sei como", ou "Eu não posso.”
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“By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of "I am afraid", we say, "I don't want to", or "I don't know how", or "I can't.”
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“Toda dominação pessoal, psicológica, social e institucionalizada nessa terra pode ser remetida a uma mesma fonte original: as identidades fálicas dos homens.”
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“La pornografía es utilizada en la violación: para planearla, ejecutarla, coreografiarla, para generar la emoción necesaria para cometer el acto.”
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“Homens que querem ajudar as mulheres em nossa luta por liberdade e justiça deviam compreender que não é extraordinariamente importante para nós que eles aprendam a chorar; é importante para nós que eles parem os crimes de violência contra nós.”
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2004· 1 entry
Said, "I thought I was finished, but I feel a new vitality
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2002· 1 entry
Dworkin published her autobiography, Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded American Book Awards (2001).
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1999· 1 entry
Had been hospitalized with a high fever and blood clots in her legs
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1998· 1 entry
Due to her ill health, specifically painful osteoarthritis
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1997· 1 entry
Dworkin published a collection of her speeches and articles from the 1990s in Life and Death: Unapologetic Writings on the Continuing War on Women, including a long autobiographical essay on her life as a writer, and art
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1994· 1 entry
And Without Apology: Andrea Dworkin's Art and Politics by Cindy Jenefsky in 1998
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1993· 2 entries
“Prostitution and Male Supremacy”
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Copies of Dworkin's book Pornography were held for inspection by Canada Customs agents, fostering an urban legend that Dworkin's own books had been banned from Canada under a law that she herself had promoted
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1992· 3 entries
The Supreme Court of Canada made a ruling in R
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“Speech from Duke University, January 1985”
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Melanie McFadyean wrote: "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
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1989· 1 entry
Dworkin wrote an article about her life as a battered wife in the Netherlands, "What Battery Really Is", in response to Susan Brownmiller, who had argued that Hedda Nussbaum, a battered woman, should have been indicted f
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1987· 1 entry
Dworkin published Intercourse, in which she extended her analysis from pornography to sexual intercourse itself, and argued that the sort of sexual subordination depicted in pornography was central to men's and women's e
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1986· 1 entry
Dworkin testified for half an hour before the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography (also known as the "Meese Commission") in New York City, and answered questions from commissioners after completing her testimony
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1985· 1 entry
"unless one of us is terminally ill or jailed for political activity
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1984· 1 entry
But was overturned as unconstitutional under the First Amendment by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in the case American Booksellers v
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1983· 2 entries
Dworkin published Right-Wing Women: The Politics of Domesticated Females, an examination of women's reasons for collaborating with conservative men for the limitation of women's freedom
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“I Want a Twenty-Four Hour Truce During Which There Is No Rape”
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1981· 1 entry
Dworkin published Pornography: Men Possessing Women, which analyzes contemporary and historical pornography as an industry of misogynistic dehumanization
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1980· 1 entry
Linda Boreman (who had appeared in the pornographic film Deep Throat as "Linda Lovelace") made public statements that her ex-husband Chuck Traynor had beaten and raped her, and violently coerced her into making that and
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1979· 1 entry
But by then Dworkin had begun to distance herself from the group over differences in approach
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1978· 1 entry
“A Feminist Looks at Saudi Arabia”
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1977· 1 entry
Became an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press
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1974· 3 entries
Andrea and John Stoltenberg were introduced by a mutual friend, a theater director, at a meeting of the then-fledgling Gay Academic Union
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Woman Hating: A Radical Look at Sexuality was Dworkin's first book outlining many foundational points comprising her developing feminist philosophy
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Not attending together, they both walked out of a poetry reading—a benefit for the War Resisters League in Greenwich Village—due to the misogynist content
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1971· 1 entry
Dworkin said her ex-husband attacked, persecuted, and harassed her, beating her and threatening her whenever he found where she was hiding
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1965· 1 entry
While a freshman at Bennington College, Dworkin was arrested during an anti-Vietnam War protest at the United States Mission to the United Nations and sent to the New York Women's House of Detention
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1964· 1 entry
From what is now Cherry Hill High School West
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1946· 2 entries
In Camden, New Jersey, to Harry Dworkin and Sylvia Spiegel
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Born 1946-09-26.
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