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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
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"The most shocking book any feminist has yet written." Germaine Greer"
About the Author
Andrea Dworkin was the co-author, with Catharine A. MacKinnon, of civil rights legislation recognizing pornography as legally actionable sex discrimination. She wrote eleven books, including Pornography, Heartbreak, and Scapegoat. She died in April 2005 in Washington, D.C. Ariel Levy is a contributing editor at New York magazine, and the author of Female Chauvinist Pigs. She lives in New York City.
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Seller: HPB-Red, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Intercourse
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The Free Press, New York, 1987
ISBN 10: 0029079705
ISBN 13: 9780029079706
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First printing. A Fine copy, inclusive of the dust jacket, save for the ownership markings to the front pastedown, which carries the library stamp of NCACNational Coalition Against Censorshipfrom whom the book was acquired and a bookplate stating, "Donated by Joseph and Shirley Wershba 2007." Joseph Wershba (19202011) was a longtime CBS journalist and correspondent. First printing. xi + 257 pages. 6.25" x 9.5". In Intercourse (1987) feminist writer Andrea Dworkin (19462005) explores the inherent power dynamics of heterosexual sex within a patriarchal system. Drawing on examples from fictional and historical figures, Dworkin illustrates the ways these themes of inequality are so embedded into culture that we treat them as innate and not as constructs. . Seller Inventory # 219
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