Occupation: Lawyer Birth: October 7, 1946
Women and men are divided by gender, made into the sexes as we know them, by the social requirements of heterosexuality, which institutionalizes male….
Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living as a writer, Andrea Dworkin was misrepresented an….
Imagine that for hundreds of years your most formative traumas, your daily suffering and pain, the abuse you live through, the terror you live with, ….
In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color..
The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent..
Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated..
In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables..
It's particularly hard to take being stabbed in the back close to home. There's always a feeling of betrayal when people of your own group oppose you..
Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism..
If pornography is part of your sexuality, then you have no right to your sexuality..
What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty unive….
If you want to know who is being hurt in this society, go see what is being done and to whom in pornography and then go look for them other places in….
Empirically, all pornography is made under conditions of inequality based on sex, overwhelmingly by poor, desperate, homeless, pimped women who were ….
Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women'….
You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs..
Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men..
Women are raped and coerced into sex..
Women are socially disadvantaged in controlling sexual access to their bodies through socialization to customs that define a woman's body as for sexu….
Stopped as attribute of a person, sex inequality takes the form of gender; moving as a relation between people, it takes the form of sexuality. Gende….
The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male, as well as what is not Greek, not Christia….
In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of sex; they were not coerced enough..