Andrea Dworkin

«Este libro es una acción, una acción política cuya meta es la revolución. No tiene otro propósito». «Ella es nuestra profeta del Antiguo Testamento, furiosa en lo alto del monte, diciendo la verdad

«Este libro es una acción, una acción política cuya meta es la revolución. No tiene otro propósito».«Ella es nuestra profeta del Antiguo Testamento, furiosa en lo alto del monte, diciendo la verdad [

Una crónica cruda y emocionante de la vida de Andrea Dworkin: niña rebelde, joven pacifista, mujer que sufrió la prostitución y la violencia machista. Su compromiso con la libertad de las mujeres la convirtio en una activista y escritora de renombre internacional.

Quel rapport y a-t-il entre les contes de fées traditionnels, la pornographie, les littératures sadiennes, la contreculture, mille ans de bandage des pieds des Chinoises et le Malleus Maleficarum, guide catholique allemand de la chasse aux sorcieres ? La haine viscerale et irrationnelle contre les femmes. Cet essai a la prose farouche et combative, classique du feminisme americain, est le premier livre dAndrea Dworkin, paru aux Etats-Unis en 1974. Lautrice sattaque aux rouages de la misogynie et de la domination masculine par une analyse sans concession de la representation des femmes dans nos societes sexistes et des crimes de masse a leur encontre.

Xeo e lume, novela que tivo serias dificultades para ser publicada nos Estados Unidos, acolle entre as súas virtudes a de interpretar o corpus ideolóxico do feminismo radical americano dos últimos vintecinco anos. Nesta novela faise unha analise da sexualidade ou, mais concretamente, das modalidades de subordinacion sexual da muller no sistema de dominacion patriarcal; da violencia de xenero que ten como expresion mais xenuina a pornografia e a prostitucion. A novela esta narrada en primeira persoa por unha muller que aspira a se converter en escritora. O periplo que a protagonista afronta adquire dimensions que exceden do meramente individual e privado, para trascender ao mundo colectivo das mulleres. Andrea Dworkim, a escritora norteamericana que encabezou en 1979 o grupo Mulleres contra a pornografia, permite que os personaxes se expresen sen eufemismos nin morneadas. Dura, aspera, as veces desesperanzada, a experiencia de vida mostrada por Dworkin vertese na linguaxe visual e na lingua. A lingua vai se o instrumento e o reflexo que materialice a violencia vivida polas mulleres nas sociedades patriarcais.

From one of the boldest, "most shocking" (Germaine Greer), and "uncompromising" (Mary Daly) feminist writers of the 20th century, Intercourse is the book that enraged, inspired, and ultimately split apart the feminist movement when it first published in 1987 In Intercourse, Dworkin argues that in a male supremacist society, sex between men and women constitutes a central part of womens subordination to men. (This argument was quickly-and falsely-simplified to "all sex is rape" in the public arena, adding fire to Dworkins already radical persona.) In her introduction to this edition of Intercourse, Ariel Levy, the author of Female Chauvinist Pigs, discusses the circumstances of Dworkins untimely death in the spring of 2005, and the enormous impact of her life and work. Dworkins argument, she points out, is the stickiest question of feminism: Can a woman fight the power when he shares her bed? Andrea Dworkin, once called "Feminisms 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.

Selections from the work of radical feminist author Andrea Dworkin, famous for her antipornography stance and role in the feminist sex wars of the 1980s.Radical feminist author Andrea Dworkin was a caricature of misandrist extremism in the popular imagination and a polarizing figure within the womens movement, infamous for her antipornography stance and her role in the feminist sex wars of the 1980s. She still looms large in feminist demands for sexual freedom, evoked as a censorial demagogue, more than a decade after her death. Among the very first writers to use her own experiences of rape and battery in a revolutionary analysis of male supremacy, Dworkin was a philosopher outside and against the academy who wrote with a singular, apocalyptic urgency. Last Days at Hot Slit brings together selections from Dworkins work, both fiction and nonfiction, with the aim of putting the contentious positions shes best known for in dialogue with her literary oeuvre. The collection charts her path from the militant primer Woman Hating (1974), to the formally complex polemics of Pornography (1979) and Intercourse (1987) and the raw experimentalism of her final novel Mercy (1990). It also includes Goodbye to All This (1983), a scathing chapter from an unpublished manuscript that calls out her feminist adversaries, and My Suicide (1999), a despairing long-form essay found on her hard drive after her death in 2005.

Pornography is the orchestrated destruction of womens bodies and souls it is war on womenPornography, Andrea Dworkin argued in this landmark work, is about power: the power of owning, of money, of sex. It is not merely violence against women, but the essential DNA of male dominance. As images of womens bodies continue to be manipulated and consumed, her searing, fearless critique of pornographic media is more urgent and discomfiting than ever.A major text for our time Adrienne RichDworkin writes with power, anger, daring and from a great care and love of womankind Alice WalkerThe woman who showed us the dark core of pornography, the punishing hatred of women that pervades it Guardian

Feminism is hated because women are hatedWhy do some women support Right-wing movements, even though they curtail their freedoms? Andrea Dworkins timeless, visionary analysis goes to the heart of this contradiction, exploring the Rights positions on abortion, sexuality, racism and antifeminism, and showing how it attempts both to exploit and to quiet womens deepest fears of male violence. The Right-wing woman, Dworkin contends, acquiesces to male authority for protection and some semblance of power: because survival depends on it.Groundbreaking Bella AbzugHer razor-sharp analysis of why so many women are attracted to a politics that despises their rights is more relevant today than ever Guardian

Figure de proue du féminisme américain, Andrea Dworkin a été prise pour cible de la haine antiféministe. Le milieu de l’édition américaine lui reproche le manque de « féminité » de son écriture, dire

This book is an action, a political action where revolution is the goalAndrea Dworkins blazing, prophetic debut argued that a deep-rooted hatred of women has been ingrained in society for centuries and still governs us today. From fairy tales to erotic novels to witch-burnings, she uncovers the ways in which male violence and oppression have been normalized throughout history, and points the way to liberation.To see where we are going we must understand where we have been. Woman Hating is a much needed and long overdue addition toward that understanding Audre LordeA singularly powerful voice Dworkin [gave] definitive expression to the radical feminist tenet that sexual domination was the beating heart of patriarchy Amia Srinivasan, LRB