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Free Press Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant ... Pdf. Pornography and Civil Rights: A New Day for Women's Equality. Minneapolis, Minnesota ...
While Dworkin was living in Amsterdam, she met Ricki Abrams, a feminist and fellow expatriate.Abrams introduced Dworkin to early radical feminist writing from the United States, and Dworkin was especially inspired by Kate Millett's Sexual Politics, Shulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex and Robin Morgan's Sisterhood Is Powerful. [1]
The march drew between five and seven thousand demonstrators, who marched behind a huge stitched banner reading "Women Against Pornography / Stop Violence Against Women," including Brownmiller, Alexander, Campbell, Mehrhof, Bella Abzug, Gloria Steinem, Robin Morgan, Andrea Dworkin, Charlotte Bunch, Judy Sullivan, and Amina Abdur-Rahman.
Dworkin analyzes (and extensively cites examples drawn from) contemporary and historical pornography as an industry that hates and dehumanizes women. Dworkin argues that the industry is implicated in violence against women, both in its production (through the abuse of the women that are used to star in it) and in the social consequences of its consumption by encouraging men to eroticize the ...
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Intercourse is the fifth nonfiction book by American radical feminist writer and activist Andrea Dworkin.It was first published in 1987 by Free Press.In Intercourse, Dworkin presents a radical feminist analysis of sexual intercourse in literature and society.
The women who took part understood that this conference was important in light of the growing Women Against Pornography (WAP) movement led by Andrea Dworkin, Susan Brownmiller, and Robin Morgan. Therefore, the aim was to "move beyond debates about violence and pornography and to focus on sexuality apart from reproduction". [2]