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Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years.
Nov 13, 2023 · In Intercourse, Andrea Dworkin set out to expose the power dynamics underpinning sexual relationships. Her book was pilloried in the 1980s, but many of her ideas no longer look...
Mar 25, 2019 · Dworkin was widely regarded as sexless and “anti-sex,” feminism’s image problem incarnate, hated by various denominations of liberals and—except when she was campaigning against...
Jun 10, 2024 · Andrea Dworkin (born September 26, 1946, Camden, New Jersey, U.S.—died April 9, 2005, Washington, D.C.) was an American feminist and author, an outspoken critic of sexual politics, particularly of the victimizing effects of pornography on women.
Jun 13, 2022 · Andrea Rita Dworkin, who died in 2005 at the age of 58, continues to be one of the most controversial and misunderstood “radical” feminists.
Apr 20, 1990 · A victim of abuse as a child, briefly a prostitute as a young woman, Andrea Dworkin married a gay man and spent three decades fighting hypersexualized America. She lost.
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.
Jun 28, 2022 · Few figures vivify the struggle over public memory and survival as compellingly as second wave feminist Andrea Dworkin, who was a visionary and gadfly within the movement. This analysis provides an interior view of this public and often misunderstood figure as it advances a theory of archival resilience.
Apr 12, 2005 · Andrea Dworkin, the feminist writer and antipornography campaigner whose work was a lightning rod for the debate on pornography and censorship that raged through the United States in the 1980's,...
Apr 28, 2005 · Andrea Dworkin, a writer and feminist, died April 9th aged 58. OF THE American feminists who came to prominence in the 1960s and early 1970s, Andrea Dworkin was the fiercest.
