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Born | Andrea Rita Dworkin September 26, 1946 Camden, New Jersey, U.S. |
Died | April 9, 2005 Washington, D.C., U.S. | (aged 58)
Education | Bennington College (BA) |
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Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American
The central objective of Dworkin's work is analyzing
Biography
Early life
Andrea Dworkin was born on September 26, 1946, in
Though she described her Jewish household as being in many ways dominated by the memory of the Holocaust, it nonetheless provided a happy childhood until she reached the age of nine, when an unknown man molested her in a movie theater. When Dworkin was ten, her family moved from the city to the suburbs of Cherry Hill, New Jersey (then known as Delaware Township), which she later wrote she "experienced as being kidnapped by aliens and taken to a penal colony".[24] In sixth grade, the administration at her new school punished her for refusing to sing "Silent Night" (as a Jew, she objected to being forced to sing Christian religious songs at school).[25] She said she "probably would have become a rabbi" if women could have while she was in high school and she "would have liked" being a Talmudic scholar.[26]
Dworkin began writing poetry and fiction in the sixth grade.
College and early activism
In 1965, while a freshman at
Soon after testifying before the grand jury, Dworkin left Bennington College on the ocean liner
It was during those years that she produced two books of poetry, Child (1965) and Morning Hair (1967). After living in Crete, Dworkin returned to Bennington College for two years, where she continued to study literature and participated in campaigns against the college's student conduct code, for
Life in the Netherlands
After graduation, Dworkin moved to Amsterdam to interview Dutch anarchists in the Provo movement, which used theatrical street happenings to instigate change.[40] While there, she became involved with one of the anarchists, Cornelius (Iwan) Dirk de Bruin,[41] and they married. Soon after, she says that de Bruin began to abuse her severely, punching and kicking her, burning her with cigarettes, beating her on her legs with a wooden beam, and banging her head against the floor until he knocked her unconscious.[42]
After she left de Bruin late in 1971, Dworkin said her ex-husband attacked, persecuted, and harassed her, beating her and threatening her whenever he found where she was hiding. She found herself desperate for money, often homeless, thousands of miles from her family, later remarking that "I often lived the life of a fugitive, except that it was the more desperate life of a
Abrams introduced Dworkin to early
Dworkin later wrote that she eventually agreed to help smuggle a briefcase of heroin through customs in return for $1,000 and an airplane ticket, thinking that if she was successful she could return home with the ticket and the money, and if caught she would at least escape her ex-husband's abuse by going to prison. The deal for the briefcase fell through, but the man who had promised Dworkin the money gave her the airline ticket anyway, and she returned to the United States in 1972.[49]
Before she left Amsterdam, Dworkin spoke with Abrams about her experiences in the Netherlands, the emerging feminist movement, and the book they had begun to write together. Dworkin agreed to complete the book—which she eventually titled Woman Hating—and publish it when she reached the United States.[50] In her memoirs, Dworkin relates that during that conversation, she vowed to dedicate her life to the feminist movement:
Sitting with Ricki, talking with Ricki, I made a vow to her: that I would use everything I knew, including from prostitution, to make the women's movement stronger and better; that I'd give my life to the movement and for the movement. I promised to be honor-bound to the well-being of women, to do anything necessary for that well-being. I promised to live and to die if need be for women. I made that vow some thirty years ago, and I have not betrayed it yet.[51]
Return to New York and contact with the feminist movement
In New York City, Dworkin worked again as an anti-war organizer, participated in demonstrations for
Relationship with John Stoltenberg
In 1974, two occasions brought them together. First, Andrea and
In Martin Duberman’s biography, Andrea Dworkin: the Feminist as Revolutionary, John is quoted describing the sexual dimension of their relationship. Andrea’s relationship with a woman, Joanne, was unwinding though the last half of the decade, and John maintained gay relationships with men throughout their time together. But their love was expressed sexually on occasion, intimately and with affection and passion.[59]
Stoltenberg began writing a series of essays, books, and articles examining manhood and masculinity from a radical feminist perspective.[60] Although Dworkin publicly wrote, "I love John with my heart and soul,"[61] and Stoltenberg described Dworkin as "the love of my life,"[62] she continued to publicly identify herself as lesbian, and he as gay. Stoltenberg, recounting the perplexity that their relationship seemed to cause people in the press, summarized the relationship by saying, "So I state only the simplest facts publicly: yes, Andrea and I live together and love each other and we are each other's life partner, and yes we are both out."[58]
Later life
From 1974 through 1983, Dworkin wrote prolifically, producing four volumes developing her overall thesis about the practice, meaning, and function of patriarchal, misogynist violence. In 1977, she became an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press.[63] Between 1985 and 1997, she produced eight more books: three of them with Catharine A. MacKinnon either as co-author or editor and two collections of formerly unpublished essays and speeches. Her two final books came out in the first years of the 21st century, the latter being a memoir.
Dworkin was a strong opponent of President
In June 2000, she published Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation, in which she compared the oppression of women to the persecution of Jews, discussed the sexual politics of Jewish identity and antisemitism, and called for the establishment of a women's homeland as a response to the oppression of women.
Also that same month, Dworkin published articles in the New Statesman[66] and in The Guardian,[67] stating that one or more men had raped her in her hotel room in Paris the previous year, putting GHB in her drink to disable her. Her articles ignited public controversy[68] when writers such as Catherine Bennett[44] and Julia Gracen[69] published doubts about her account, polarizing opinion between skeptics and supporters such as Catharine MacKinnon, Katharine Viner,[70] and Gloria Steinem. Her reference to the incident was later described by Charlotte Raven as a "widely disbelieved claim", better seen as "a kind of artistic housekeeping."[71] Emotionally fragile and in failing health, Dworkin mostly withdrew from public life for two years following the articles.[72][73][74][75]
In 2002, Dworkin published her autobiography, Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant. She soon began to speak and write again, and in an interview with Julie Bindel in 2004 said, "I thought I was finished, but I feel a new vitality. I want to continue to help women."[72] She published three more articles in The Guardian and began work on a new book, Writing America: How Novelists Invented and Gendered a Nation, on the role of novelists such as Ernest Hemingway, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty in the development of American political and cultural identity, which was left unfinished when she died.[76] Dworkin's outline and proposal for the book was made public on June 15, 2022.[77]
Illness and death
During her final years, Dworkin suffered fragile health, and she revealed in her last column for The Guardian that she had been weakened and nearly crippled for the past several years by her weight and severe
Anti-pornography activism
Dworkin is known for her role as a speaker, writer, and activist in the feminist anti-pornography movement.
In 1981, Dworkin published Pornography: Men Possessing Women, which analyzes contemporary and historical pornography as an industry of misogynistic dehumanization. She argues that pornography is implicated in violence against women, both in its production (through the abuse of the women used to star in it), and in the social consequences of its consumption by encouraging men to eroticize the domination, humiliation, and abuse of women.[72][70][79] Dworkin, who joined The American Heritage Dictionary's Usage Panel, also argued in Pornography that this denigration of women is built into linguistic norms.[85]
Anti-pornography Civil Rights Ordinance
In 1980,
Dworkin and MacKinnon, however, continued to discuss civil rights litigation as a possible approach to combating pornography. In the fall of 1983, MacKinnon secured a one-semester appointment for Dworkin at the
The amendment defined pornography as a civil rights violation against women, and allowed women who claimed harm from pornography to sue the producers and distributors in
Testimony before Attorney General's Commission on Pornography
On January 22, 1986, Dworkin testified for half an hour before the
In her testimony and replies to questions from the commissioners, Dworkin denounced the use of criminal obscenity prosecutions against pornographers, stating, "We are against obscenity laws. We do not want them. I want you to understand why, whether you end up agreeing or not."[96] She argued that obscenity laws were largely ineffectual,[96] that when they were effectual they only suppressed pornography from public view while allowing it to flourish out of sight,[97] and that they suppressed the wrong material, or the right material for the wrong reasons, arguing that "Obscenity laws are also woman-hating in their very construction. Their basic presumption is that it's women's bodies that are dirty."[98]
Instead she offered five recommendations for the Commission, recommending (1) that "the Justice Department instruct law-enforcement agencies to keep records of the use of pornography in violent crimes",[98] (2) a ban on the possession and distribution of pornography in prisons,[99] (3) that prosecutors "enforce laws against pimping and pandering against pornographers",[99] (4) that the administration "make it a Justice Department priority to enforce RICO (the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) against the pornography industry",[99] and (5) that Congress adopt federal anti-pornography civil rights legislation which would provide for civil damages for harm inflicted on women. She suggested that the Commission consider "creating a criminal conspiracy provision under the civil rights law, such that conspiring to deprive a person of their civil rights by coercing them into pornography is a crime, and that conspiring to traffic in pornography is conspiring to deprive women of our civil rights."[100] Dworkin compared her proposal to the Southern Poverty Law Center's use of civil rights litigation against the Ku Klux Klan.[96]
Dworkin also submitted into evidence a copy of Boreman's book Ordeal, as an example of the abuses that she hoped to remedy, saying "The only thing atypical about Linda is that she has had the courage to make a public fight against what has happened to her. And whatever you come up with, it has to help her or it's not going to help anyone." Boreman had testified in person before the Commission, but the Commissioners had not yet seen her book.[101]
Addendum: Butler decision in Canada
In 1992, the
Dworkin opposed LEAF's position, arguing that feminists should not support or attempt to reform criminal obscenity law.[104] In 1993, copies of Dworkin's book Pornography were held for inspection by Canada Customs agents,[105] fostering an urban legend that Dworkin's own books had been banned from Canada under a law that she herself had promoted. However, the Butler decision did not adopt Dworkin and MacKinnon's ordinance, Dworkin did not support the decision, and her books (which were released shortly after they were inspected) were held temporarily as part of a standard procedural measure, unrelated to the Butler decision.[106]
Non-fiction (selected works)
Woman Hating
Published in 1974, Woman Hating: A Radical Look at Sexuality was Dworkin's first book outlining many foundational points comprising her developing feminist philosophy. She identifies the book a revolutionary act, an expression of a "commitment to ending male dominance" in all its cultural and social manifestations.[107]
The last section explores androgyny in myths and religions across the globe to "discern another ontology, one which discards the fiction that there are two polar distinct sexes." She was not alone in this endeavor. Dworkin's exploration exists in a Western literary lineage that includes Orlando: A Biography, by Virginia Woolf, and Woman on the Edge of Time, by Marge Piercy. In the final chapter, she examines sexual similarities, hermaphroditism, parthenogenesis, pansexuality, homosexuality, transsexuality, transvestism, bestiality, incest, the family, and children. About this chapter she reflects on her own theorizing as problematic, existing outside of girls' and women's lived experience: "I think there are a lot of things really wrong with the last chapter of Woman Hating", said Dworkin in an interview with Cindy Jenefsky for her book, Without Apology: Andrea Dworkin's Art and Politics. She identifies factors which influenced the chapter: 'years of reading Freud and trying to figure out abstractly what all this was about'... [A]t the time Woman Hating was written, [there were] roots in the counterculture and the sexual liberation movement."[108]
Dworkin's work from the early 1980s onward contained frequent condemnations of incest and pedophilia as one of the chief forms of violence against women, arguing once that "incest is a crime committed against someone, a crime from which many victims never recover."[109] In the early 1980s, she had a public row with her formerly admired friend Allen Ginsberg, with whom she shared godparent status of a mutual friend's child. The intense disagreement was over his support for child pornography and pedophilia, in which Ginsberg said, "The right wants to put me in jail." Dworkin responded, "Yes, they're very sentimental; I'd kill you."[110]
Right-Wing Women
In 1983, 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.[111]
In the preface to the British edition,
In one review, it was described as being premised on agreement between feminists and right-wing women on the existence of domination by men in sex and class, but disagreement on strategy.[116]
Intercourse
In 1987, 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 experiences of heterosexual intercourse in a male supremacist society. In the book, she argues that all heterosexual sex in our patriarchal society is coercive and degrading to women, and sexual penetration may by its very nature doom women to inferiority and submission, and "may be immune to reform".[117]
Citing from both pornography and literature—including
Such descriptions are often cited by Dworkin's critics, interpreting the book as claiming "all" heterosexual intercourse is rape, or more generally that the anatomical mechanics of sexual intercourse make it intrinsically harmful to women's equality. For instance, Cathy Young says that statements such as "intercourse is the pure, sterile, formal expression of men's contempt for women" are reasonably summarized as "all sex is rape".[118]
Dworkin rejected that interpretation of her argument,[119] stating in a later interview that "I think both intercourse and sexual pleasure can and will survive equality" and suggesting that the misunderstanding came about because of the very sexual ideology she was criticizing: "Since the paradigm for sex has been one of conquest, possession, and violation, I think many men believe they need an unfair advantage, which at its extreme would be called rape. I do not think they need it."[120]
Life and Death
In 1997, 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 articles on violence against women, pornography, prostitution,
Reviewing Life and Death in
Many of Dworkin's early speeches are reprinted in her second book, Our Blood (1976). Later selections of speeches were reprinted ten and twenty years later, in Letters from a War Zone (1988) and Life and Death (1997).[122]
Fiction
Dworkin published three fictional works after achieving notice as a feminist author and activist. She published a collection of short stories, the new womans broken heart in 1980. Her first novel, Ice and Fire, was originally published in the United Kingdom in 1986. It is a
Dworkin's short fiction and novels often incorporated elements from her life and themes from her nonfiction writing, sometimes related by a first-person narrator. Critics have sometimes quoted passages spoken by characters in Ice and Fire as representations of Dworkin's own views.[126][127][119] Dworkin, however, wrote "My fiction is not autobiography. I am not an exhibitionist. I do not show myself. I am not asking for forgiveness. I do not want to confess. But I have used everything I know—my life—to show what I believe must be shown so that it can be faced. The imperative at the heart of my writing—what must be done—comes directly from my life. But I do not show my life directly, in full view; nor even look at it while others watch."[128]
Influence
Dworkin's writings were designed to assert the ubiquity and denounce the injustice of institutionalized and normalized sex-based harm against women. She became one of the most influential writers and spokeswomen of American
Dworkin's uncompromising positions and forceful style of writing and speaking, described by Robert Campbell as "apocalyptic",[136] earned her frequent comparisons to other speakers such as Malcolm X (by Robin Morgan,[80] Susie Bright,[123] and others). Gloria Steinem repeatedly compared her style to that of the Biblical prophets.[137][138]
Critical of what she described as male supremacist values expressed among conservatives, liberals, and radicals,
Her life partner John Stoltenberg wrote that Dworkin was a trans ally who "repudiated the sex binary—and the biological essentialism upon which belief in it is based." Stoltenberg also wrote that "she is often invoked to support beliefs she actively repudiated in her work."[143]
Criticism
Dworkin's discursive style, coupled with antipathy for her views, produced sharply polarizing debate. In 1992,
Other feminists published sympathetic or celebratory memorials online and in print.
Further critics, especially women who identify as feminists but sharply differ with Dworkin's positions and strategies, have offered nuanced views, suggesting that Dworkin called attention to real and important problems, but that her legacy as a whole had been destructive to the women's movement.[153] Her work and activism on pornography—especially in the form of the Antipornography Civil Rights Ordinance—were criticized by liberal groups such as the Feminist Anti-Censorship Task Force (FACT).[154]
Dworkin was also met with criticism from sex-positive feminists, in what became known as the feminist sex wars of the late 1970s and 1980s. The sex wars were a series of heated debates that polarized feminist thought on a number of issues relating to sex and sexuality. Sex-positive feminist critics criticized Dworkin's legal activism as censorious, and argued that her work on pornography and sexuality promoted an essentialist, conservative, or repressive view of sexuality, which they often characterized as "anti-sex" or "sex-negative". Her criticisms of common heterosexual sexual expression, pornography, prostitution, and sadomasochism were frequently claimed to disregard women's own agency in sex or deny women's sexual choices. Dworkin countered that her critics often misrepresented her views,[155] and that under the heading of "choice" and "sex-positivity", her feminist critics were failing to question the often violent political structures that confined women's choices and shaped the meaning of sex acts.[156]
However, in the 21st century, Dworkin has garnered favor with younger generations of feminists, Lauren Oyler (b. 1991), Moira Donegan (b. 1989), Jennifer Szalai (b. 1979-80), Michelle Goldberg (b. 1975), and Joanna Fateman (b. 1974), who found liberal and sex-positive feminism lacking in depth of analysis and action.[157][158][159][160][161][162]
In 1989, 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 for her failure to stop Joel Steinberg from murdering their adoptive daughter.[163] Newsweek initially accepted "What Battery Really Is" for publication, but then declined to publish the account at the request of their attorney, according to Dworkin, arguing that she needed either to publish anonymously "to protect the identity of the batterer" and remove references to specific injuries, or to provide "medical records, police records, a written statement from a doctor who had seen the injuries". Instead, Dworkin submitted the article to the Los Angeles Times, which published it on March 12, 1989.[164]
Bibliography
Non-fiction
Sole author
Title | First edition details | |
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Year | Publisher | |
Woman Hating: A Radical Look at Sexuality | 1974 | E. P. Dutton |
Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics | 1976 | Harper & Row
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Pornography: Men Possessing Women | 1981 | Putnam |
Right-Wing Women: The Politics of Domesticated Females | 1983 | The Women's Press |
Intercourse | 1987 | Free Press |
Letters from a War Zone: Writings, 1976–1989 | 1989 | E. P. Dutton |
Life and Death: Unapologetic Writings on the Continuing War Against Women | 1997 | Virago Press |
Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation | 2000 | Free Press |
Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant | 2002 | Basic Books |
Co-authored/co-edited with Catharine A. MacKinnon
- The Reasons Why: Essays on the New Civil Rights Law Recognizing Pornography as Sex Discrimination. New York: Women Against Pornography. 1985. OCLC 15992953.
- Includes:
- Dworkin, Andrea (Spring 1985). "Against the Male Flood: Censorship, Pornography, and Equality". Harvard Journal of Law & Gender. 8: 1–30. Pdf.
- Pornography and Civil Rights: A New Day for Women's Equality. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Organizing Against Pornography. 1988.
- In Harm's Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings, Dworkin, Andrea; MacKinnon, Catharine A., eds. Boston: Harvard University Press. 1998. ISBN 9780674445796
Anthology
- Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin, Fateman, Joanna; Scholder, Amy, eds. Cambridge: The MIT Press. 2019. ISBN 9781635900804
Chapters in other anthologies
- ISBN 978-0809015771.
- ISBN 1-875559-38-8.[165]
- ISBN 978-0231107082.
- ISBN 978-0231107082.
- ISBN 978-0743466271.[166]
Fiction
Title | First edition details | |
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Year | Publisher | |
The New Woman's Broken Heart: Short Stories | 1980 | Frog in the Well |
Ice and Fire: A Novel | 1986 | Secker & Warburg
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Mercy | 1991 | Four Walls Eight Windows |
Poetry
- Child. Crete: Heraklion. 1966. OCLC 4708955.
- Morning hair. Philadelphia: Philadelphia College of Art. 1967. OCLC 9290267.
Articles
- Marx and Gandhi were liberals: feminism and the "radical" left. East Palo Alto, CA: Frog in the Well. 1977. OCLC 6189987.
- Why so-called radical men love and need pornography. East Palo Alto, CA: Frog in the Well. 1978. OCLC 8309555.
- "Against the male flood: censorship, pornography, and equality". Harvard Journal of Law & Gender. 8: 1–30. Spring 1985. Pdf
- Pornography is a Civil Rights Issue for Women. Minneapolis, MN: Organizing Against Pornography. 1986.
- "Pornography is a civil rights issue for women".
- "The ACLU: bait and switch". Yale Journal of Law and Feminism. 1 (1): 37–40. Spring 1989. Pdf
- "Prostitution and male supremacy". Michigan Journal of Gender and Law. 1: 1–12. 1993. Page 1 of 2. Page 2 of 2
- Are you listening, Hillary? President Rape is who he is. 1999.
- Excerpt with Note from John Stoltenberg, May 25, 2007
- "A good rape". ISBN 978-0684857824
- "Out of the closet". ISBN 978-0747564560
- "The day I was drugged and raped". New Statesman. March 4, 2013.
Speeches
- Andrea Dworkin's Attorney General's Commission Testimony on Pornography and Prostitution
- "Freedom Now: Ending Violence Against Women"
- "Speech from Duke University, January 1985"
Spoken word recording
- Taped Phone Interview Andrea Dworkin interviewed by Nikki Craft on Allen Ginsberg, May 9, 1990. (Audio File, 20 min, 128 kbit/s, mp3)
- Dworkin on Dworkin, c. 1980[165]
Reviews
- Ice and Fire, by Andrea Dworkin; Intercourse, by Andrea Dworkin. "Male and Female, Men and Women". Reviewed by Carol Sternhell for The New York Times (May 3, 1987).
- Intercourse, by Andrea Dworkin; Feminism Unmodified, by Catharine MacKinnon. "Porn in the U.S.A., Part I". Reviewed by Maureen Mullarkey for The Nation (May 30, 1987)
- Intercourse, by Andrea Dworkin (Tenth Anniversary Edition 1997) at the Wayback Machine (archived April 2, 2003). Reviewed by Giney Villar for Women in Action (3:1998)
- Pornography: Men Possessing Women. "Unburning a Witch: Re-Reading Andrea Dworkin" at the Wayback Machine (archived March 6, 2005). Reviewed by Jed Brandt for the NYC Indypendent (February 7, 2005)
In popular culture
In Dworkin's lifetime, two volumes considered and analyzed the body of her work: Andrea Dworkin by Jeremy Mark Robinson, first published in 1994,[167] and Without Apology: Andrea Dworkin's Art and Politics by Cindy Jenefsky in 1998.[168] Dworkin's influence has continued beyond her death. The play Aftermath was produced in 2015 by John Stoltenberg, based on Dworkin's unpublished writing.[169] The Dworkin anthology Last Days at Hot Slit was published in 2019.[170] The documentary feature My Name is Andrea by Pratibha Parmar was released in 2020;[171] the biography Andrea Dworkin: The Feminist as Revolutionary by Martin Duberman was published the same year.[172] Dworkin's book proposal for Writing America: How Novelists Invented and Gendered a Nation was made public in mid-2022.[77]
She appears in Season 3 Episode 4 of The Deuce as a member of Women Against Pornography.
References
- ^ Dworkin 1987, pp. 103–133
- ^ Dworkin 1989a, pp. 153–161
- ^ Dworkin, Andrea (1995). "Disorder in the Court : THE ABUSE : In Nicole Brown Simpson's Words". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ Dworkin 1989a, pp. 68–87
- ^ Dworkin 1989a, pp. 87–94
- ^ Dworkin 1987, pp. 3–100
- ^ Dworkin 1978a, pp. 107–146
- ^ Dworkin, Andrea (1975). "Lesbian Pride". No Status Quo.
- ^ Dworkin 1987, pp. 103–151
- ^ Dworkin, Andrea (1990). "Israel: Whose Country Is It Anyway?". No Status Quo.
- ^ Dworkin, Andrea (1977). "Biological Superiority: The World's Most Dangerous and Deadly Idea". No Status Quo.
- – via Research Gate.
- ^ Dworkin, Andrea (1979). "For Men, Freedom of Speech; For Women, Silence Please". No Status Quo.
- ^ Dworkin, Andrea (1981). "The ACLU: Bait and Switch". No Status Quo.
- ^ Dworkin 1978a, pp. 37–69
- ^ Dworkin 1976, pp. 50–65
- ^ Dworkin 1987, pp. 127–128
- ^ Dworkin 1976, pp. 22–49
- ^ Dworkin, Andrea (1978b). "A Battered Wife Survives". No Status Quo.
- ^ Dworkin, Andrea (1993). "Prostitution and Male Supremacy". No Status Quo.
- ^ Dworkin, Andrea (1981). "Pornography and Male Supremacy". No Status Quo.
- ^ Shalvi, Alice. "Andrea Dworkin, 1946–2005". Jewish Women Encyclopedia. Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved December 28, 2012.
- ^ Dworkin 2002, p. 23
- ^ Dworkin 1997, p. 3
- ^ Dworkin 2002, pp. 21–22
- ^ Vincent, Norah, Sex, Love and Politics: Andrea Dworkin, in New York Press, vol. 11, no. 5, Feb. 4–10, 1998, p. 42, col. 1 (main title and subtitle may have been in either order, per id., p. [1]).
- ^ a b Dworkin 1997, pp. 23–24, 28; Dworkin 2002, pp. 37–40
- ^ Both quotations: Vincent, Norah, Sex, Love and Politics, op. cit., p. 42, col. 4.
- ^ Vincent, Norah, Sex, Love and Politics, op. cit., p. 42, col. 4 (quoting interviewer Vincent).
- ^ Strauss, Robert. "A 50th High School Reunion, and a Generation to Follow", The New York Times, September 19, 2014. Accessed October 29, 2018. "Today the drive-in spot is occupied by the Crowne Plaza hotel, where the Worthingtons, along with about 100 former classmates, gathered on a recent Saturday night for the 50th reunion of their Cherry Hill High School West graduating class..... On the 'In Memory' board with 54 other deceased classmates was Andrea Dworkin, the feminist known for her writings against pornography."
- ^ Apmann, Sarah Bean (January 29, 2018). "The Women's House of Detention". The blog of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation.
- ^ Dworkin 2002, pp. 77–81
- ^ Farrell, William E. (March 6, 1965). "Inquiry Ordered at Women's Jail; Mrs. Kross Acts in Case of a Bennington Student Seized in U.N. Protest". The New York Times. Retrieved February 4, 2013. (subscription required)
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- ^ Dworkin 2002, pp. 80, 83
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- ^ Dworkin 2002, p. 98
- ^ Dworkin 2002, pp. 107–112
- ^ Fox, Margalit (April 12, 2005). "Andrea Dworkin, Writer and Crusading Feminist, Dies at 58". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 14, 2022. Retrieved March 29, 2024.
- ^ Dworkin 1997, pp. 24–25; Dworkin 2002, p. 117
- ^ Dworkin, Andrea. Videotape Collection of Andrea Dworkin, 1981–1998 (Inclusive): A Finding Aid (Cambridge, Mass.: Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard Univ. (Vt-136), Feb., 2009) Archived November 6, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, as accessed October 18, 2018.
- ^ Dworkin 2002, p. 119; Dworkin 1989a, pp. 103, 332
- ^ Dworkin 1997, p. 17
- ^ a b Catherine Bennett (June 8, 2000). "Doubts about Dworkin". The Guardian. London. Retrieved July 11, 2009.
- ^ Dworkin 1997, pp. 18–19
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- ^ Dworkin 1997, p. 21; Dworkin 2002, p. 122
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- ^ Dworkin 1997, p. 22
- ^ Dworkin 2002, p. 122.
- ^ Dworkin 2002, p. 123
- ^ Dworkin 1989a, p. 3
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- ^ Dworkin 2002, pp. 139–143
- ^ "A Brief History of NOMAS". National Organization for Men Against Sexism. May 2012. Archived from the original on June 3, 2009. Retrieved July 5, 2009.
- ^ Dworkin 1989a, pp. 162–171
- ^ a b John Stoltenberg (May–June 1994). "Living with Andrea Dworkin". Lambda Book Report. Retrieved July 5, 2009.
- ISBN 9781620975855.
- ^ Sporenda (September 9, 2013). "John Stoltenberg on manhood, male supremacy, and men as feminist allies". Feminist Current.
- ISBN 978-0-8103-4518-8.
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External links
- Portal for Andrea Dworkin's Websites maintained by Nikki Craft
- Official Andrea Dworkin Online Library maintained by Nikki Craft
- Andrea Dworkin Memorial Page maintained by Nikki Craft
- Papers, 1914–2007 (inclusive), 1973–2000 (bulk): A Finding Aid., Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
- Videotape collection of Andrea Dworkin, 1981–1998 (inclusive): A Finding Aid., Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
- Audiotape collection of Andrea Dworkin, 1975–1997 (inclusive): A Finding Aid., Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Andrea Dworkin at IMDb