About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 78. Chapters: Alice Walker, Alix Kates Shulman, Andrea Dworkin, Angela Davis, Anne Koedt, Ann Simonton, Audre Lorde, Bell hooks, Benedetta Barzini, Carole Ferrier, Carol Hanisch, Catharine MacKinnon, D. A. Clarke, Diana E. H. Russell, Elana Dykewomon, Ellen Willis, Florence Rush, Gloria Steinem, Jane Alpert, Janice Raymond, Jill Johnston, Julie Bindel, Kathie Sarachild, Kathleen Barry, Lierre Keith, Linda Bellos, Lydia Sargent, Mary Daly, Melissa Farley, Monique Wittig, Nikki Craft, Norah Elam, Noreen Connell, Patricia McFadden, Phyllis Chesler, Robin Morgan, Rosetta Reitz, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Sarah Hoagland, Sara Hlupekile Longwe, Sheila Jeffreys, Shulamith Firestone, Sonia Johnson, Stevi Jackson, Susan Brownmiller, Susan Griffin, Susan Star, Ti-Grace Atkinson, Valerie Solanas, Wim Hora Adema. Excerpt: Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 - April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist and writer best known for her criticism of pornography, which she argued was linked to rape and other forms of violence against women. An anti-war activist and anarchist in the late 1960s, Dworkin wrote 10 books on radical feminist theory and practice. During the late 1970s and the 1980s, she gained national fame as a spokeswoman for the feminist anti-pornography movement, and for her writing on pornography and sexuality, particularly in Pornography: Men Possessing Women (1979) and Intercourse (1987), which remain her two most widely known books. Dworkin was born in Camden, New Jersey, to Harry Dworkin and Sylvia Spiegel. Harry was the grandson of a Russian Jew who fled Russia when he was fifteen in order to escape military service and Sylvia was the child of Jewish immigrants from Hungary. She had one younger brother, Mark. Her father was a schoolteacher and dedicated socialist, whom she credited with inspiring her passion for social...
