Through this empathetic and approachable portrait, readers will develop a new appreciation for Dworkin‘s ‘combative radicalism’ and the lifelong, unsteady truce she made with the feminist mainstream.” - Publishers Weekly If feminism had a prophet, raging from the hills, warning us of the worst and urging us toward the best, it would be Andrea.” -Gloria Steinem “I wish my friend Andrea Dworkin were here to speak and write for herself, but thanks to this landmark biography by Martin Duberman, you will now be able to meet one of the greatest thinkers, writers, and activists of our time. This is a vital, complex, and long overdue reassessment of the life and work of one of the towering figures of second-wave feminism. Given exclusive access to never-before-published photographs and archives, including her letters to many of the major figures of second-wave feminism, award-winning biographer Martin Duberman traces Dworkin’s life, from her abusive first marriage through her central role in the sex and pornography wars of the following decades. This biography is the perfect complement to the widely reviewed anthology of her writing, Last Days at Hot Slit, published in 2019, providing much-needed context to her work. It is in recent years, especially with the rise of the #MeToo movement, that there has been a resurgence of interest in her ideas.

Her many detractors were eager to reduce her to the caricature of the angry, man-hating feminist who believed that all sex was rape, and as a result, her work has long been misunderstood. Although frequently relegated to its more radical fringes, Dworkin was without doubt a formidable and influential writer, a philosopher, and an activist-a brilliant figure who inspired and infuriated in equal measure. Fifteen years after her death, Andrea Dworkin remains one of the most important and challenging figures in second-wave feminism.

Woman hating andrea