6/10/2023 0 Comments Intercourse andrea dworkin summaryHer prose seizes even a hostile reader by the throat and refuses to let go. Perhaps the Dworkin revival says less about Americans' capacity to change their minds and more about the ability of powerful writing to succeed eventually. And now, as we contemplate sexual harassment again (and again, and again), she is worth revisiting. Yet after many years of being disparaged and maligned, often by other feminists and queer people, #MeToo activism has opened the door to a long-overdue recognition of Dworkin's contributions to how we understand the politics of sex and gender. Dworkin died in 2005, still writing furiously but with the lively movement that had inspired her readership mired in either academic theory or celebrations of female political and corporate firsts. Her work never really went away, of course, although radical feminism receded, and with it, an audience for work that exclusively focused on women’s lives.
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