Intercourse
of Andrea Dworkin, Ariel Levy (Foreword)
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Andrea Dworkin, once called âFeminismâs Malcolm X,â 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 sheâs 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 womenâs subordination to men. (This argument was quickly-and falsely-simplified to âall sex is rapeâ in the public arena, adding fire to Dworkinâs 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 Dworkinâs untimely death in the spring of 2005, and the enormous impact of her life and work. Dworkinâs 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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- Format Paperback
- Pages 349 pages
- Publisher Basic Books
- Publication Date November 7th 2006
- First Publication 10/29/87
- Language English
- ISBN 9780465017522
- Edition Not informed
- Category History & Politics
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