Andrea Dworkin, once called Feminism's Malcolm X," has been worshipped, reviled, criticized, and analyzed-but never ignored. The power of her writing, the passion of her ideals, and the ferocity of her intellect have spurred the arguments and activism of two generations of feminists. Now the book that she'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. Intercourse enraged as many readers as it ...
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Andrea Dworkin, once called Feminism's Malcolm X," has been worshipped, reviled, criticized, and analyzed-but never ignored. The power of her writing, the passion of her ideals, and the ferocity of her intellect have spurred the arguments and activism of two generations of feminists. Now the book that she'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. Intercourse enraged as many readers as it inspired when it was first published in 1987. In it, Dworkin argues that in a male supremacist society, sex between men and women constitutes a central part of women's subordination to men. (This argument was quickly-and falsely-simplified to all sex is rape" in the public arena, adding fire to Dworkin's already radical persona.) In her introduction to this twentieth-anniversary edition of Intercourse , Ariel Levy, the author of Female Chauvinist Pigs , discusses the circumstances of Dworkin's untimely death in the spring of 2005, and the enormous impact of her life and work. Dworkin's argument, she points out, is the stickiest question of feminism: Can a woman fight the power when he shares her bed?
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New. 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 Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBK5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 136 x 23. Weight in Grams: 388. 2006. Anniversary. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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Andrea Dworkin has been maligned by those who have not read her works. Those that have and malign her are reactive and read with the intellect instead of the heart. Her works are all about the alienation of men and women in the most intimate aspect of our lives ---sex. She is not against intercourse. She is against it being characterized as violation which is what the dominant culture wants everyone to believe. Intercourse does not have to be a dominate person pounding a hole of a submissive person. I should be about two people communicating with their bodies, their love in sensual desire. Her generous heart is trying to explain this by examples of literature and the dominant society which says women are only for reproduction or pleasure. I used to believe the crap I read about her until I read her books and finally understood what she was saying.
