Analyzes the attitudes of five male writers towards women and human sexuality, discusses virginity and the connection between sexuality and political power, and looks at laws governing sexual behavior

Reveals the personal side of the author's journey as an activist, writer, and one of the women's movement's influential figures. She tells the story of how she evolved from a childhood lover of music and books into a college activist. This book presents a portrait of a soul, and a mind, in the making.

Product Description: Xeo e lume, novela que tivo serias dificultades para ser publicada nos Estados Unidos, acolle entre as súas virtudes a de interpretar o corpus ideolóxico do feminismo radical americano dos últimos vintecinco anos. Nesta novela faise unha análise da sexualidade ou, máis concretamente, das modalidades de subordinación sexua...read more

One of feminism's most influential figures chronicles her lifelong journey as an activitist and writer, detailing her role as an international advocate for women and how she developed into a maverick thinker at odds with both the liberal left and the mainstream women's movement. Reprint.

On Yom Kippur, Jews of antiquity would sacrifice two goats: one killed as an offering to a harsh and judging god, the other taken to the wilderness and turned loose, a carrier of the sins of the group. Throughout history, argues brilliant feminist critic Andrea Dworkin, women and Jews have been stigmatized as society's scapegoats. In this stunning and provocative book, Dworkin brings her rigorous intellect to bear on the dynamics of scapegoating. Drawing upon history, philosophy, literature, and politics, she creates a terrifying picture of the workings of misogyny and anti-Semitism in the last millennium. With examples that range from the Inquisition, when women were targeted as witches and Jews as heretics, to the terror of the Nazis, whose aggression was both race- and gender-motivated, Dworkin illustrates how and why women and Jews have been scapegoated and compares the civil inequality, prejudices, and stereotypes that have framed identity for both groups. Taking the state of Israel as a paradigm, Dworkin traces the growth of male dominance in societies both old and new -- resulting in the subordination of women and a racial or ethnic "other." In Israel today, Palestinians and prostitutes are the new scapegoats: degraded, inferior, abject. Although the gentle Jewish martyrs of old have become modern Israeli warriors, women retain the stigmatized status of "weak Jews" who, when attacked, never fight back. This leads Dworkin to imagine a world in which women betray men of their own kind in order to develop and defend their own sovereignty. Ultimately, her book forces us to ask profound questions: Why do women continue to value their own lives less than those of themen they love? Where is the line between justifiable self-defense and violence? Both an impassioned plea for women to challenge and destroy the author- ity of the men in their own group and a startling work of history, "Scapegoat" will forever change how we think about the patterns of behavior and belief that give rise to domination and oppression.

Explores the hatred of women and Jews throughout history, drawing on history, literature, philosophy, and politics to elucidate the misogyny and anti-Semitism of the last millennium. (view table of contents)

This book contains the oral testimony of victims of pornography, spoken on the record for the first time in history. Speaking at hearings on a groundbreaking antipornography civil rights law, women offer eloquent witness to the devastation pornography has caused in their lives. Supported by social science experts and authorities on rape, battery, and prostitution, discounted and opposed by free speech advocates and absolutists, their riveting testimony articulates the centrality of pornography to sexual abuse and inequity today. At issue in these hearings is a law conceived and drafted by Andrea Dworkin and Catharine A. MacKinnon that defines harm done through pornography as a legal injury of sex discrimination warranting civil redress. From the first set of hearings in Minneapolis in 1983 through those before the Massachusetts state legislature in 1992, the witnesses heard here expose the commonplace reality of denigration and sexual subordination due to pornography and refute the widespread notion that pornography is harmless expression that must be protected by the state. Introduced with powerful essays by MacKinnon and Dworkin, these hearings--unabridged and with each word scrupulously verified--constitute a unique record of a conflict over the meaning of democracy itself--a major civil rights struggle for our time and a fundamental crisis in United States constitutional law: Can we sacrifice the lives of women and children to a pornographer's right to free "speech"? Can we allow the First Amendment to shield sexual exploitation and predatory sexual violence? These pages contain all the arguments for protecting pornography--and dramatically document its human cost.

Gathers essays published between 1987 and 1995 in which the author comments on society's ongoing and tacit approval of aggression against women

The nonconformist and social commentator discusses her experiences as a woman and a battered wife, her life of demonstrating, organizing, and addressing other women and the government, and the current state of the women's movement

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A nine-year-old girl molested by a man in a dark movie theater grows up to become a well-to-do feminist whose ideology conflicts with her childhood

Product Description: This volume presents a study of the damaging effect of pornography and its ramifications on society.

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Traces a woman's search for identity through the painful labyrinth of sex, drugs, and prostitution in New York's Lower East Side

Argues that the Amercian political right mobilizes women by exploiting their fears, and discusses the issues of abortion, sexual equality, anti-Semitism, and anti-feminism

Searingly powerful public addresses by a radical feminist expose the sexual violence, psychological abuse, and cultural denigration to which men have subjugated women

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