Andrea Dworkin
Andrea Dworkin has been an influential write, speaker, and activist for
over two decades. She claims to be a feminist, and that her ideas are
beneficial to women. This paper will show that many of her most popular beliefs
are not only detrimental to society, but also not in the best interests of women.
In letters from a war zone, Andrea Dworkin presents a collection of
speeches and short articles she has composed during her career as a writer and
activist. Many of her articles deal with censorship and pornography. One claim
is central to all of these, pornography is an act and not an idea, thus
censorship is not relevant to it.
In response to a New York Time Review of her 1981 book, Pornography: Men
Possessing Women, Dworkin writes, "Pornography says the women want to be hurt,
forced, and abused; pornography says women want to be raped, battered, kidnapped,
maimed; pornography says women want to be humiliated, shamed, defamed,
pornography says that women say......
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