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Andrea Dworkin, 1946-2005
Pollitt, Katha | May 2, 2005 issue

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The article presents an obituary for feminist Andrea Dworkin. I first heard of Dworkin in 1968. She had been arrested in an antiwar demonstration and jailed at the old Women's House of Detention in Greenwich Village, where male doctors subjected her to brutal internal exams. The antipornography feminism Dworkin did so much to promote seems impossibly quaint today. If by magic pornography vanished from the land, women would still be the second sex--underpaid, disrespected, lacking in power over their own bodies. Rape, battery, torture, even murder would still be hugely titillating to both sexes, and women would still be blamed, by both sexes, for the violence men inflict on them.

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DWORKIN, Andrea; OBITUARIES; FEMINISTS; ANTI-pornography movement; WOMEN'S rights; RAPE; WOMEN -- Crimes against
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