Andrea Dworkin,Ariel Levy
Andrea Dworkin, once called â€œFeminismâ€™s Malcolm X,â€ has been worshipped, reviled, criticized, and analyzed-but never ignored. The power of her writing, the passion of her ideals, and the ferocity of her intellect have spurred the arguments and activism of two generations of feminists. Now the book that sheâ€™s best known for-in which she provoked the argument that ultimately split apart the feminist movement-is being reissued for the young women and men of the twenty-first century. ,Intercourse, enraged as many readers as it inspired when it was first published in 1987. In it, Dworkin argues that in a male supremacist society, sex between men and women constitutes a central part of womenâ€™s subordination to men. (This argument was quickly-and falsely-simplified to â€œall sex is rapeâ€ in the public arena, adding fire to Dworkinâ€™s already radical persona.) In her introduction to this twentieth-anniversary edition of ,Intercourse,, Ariel Levy, the author of ,Female Chauvinist Pigs,, discusses the circumstances of Dworkinâ€™s untimely death in the spring of 2005, and the enormous impact of her life and work. Dworkinâ€™s argument, she points out, is the stickiest question of feminism: Can a woman fight the power when he shares her bed?
Feminism,Nonfiction,Philosophy,Sexuality,Gender,Womens Studies,Feminist Theory,Politics,Gender,Gender Studies,Womens,Philosophy,Theory
Intercourse