Intercourse - Softcover

Dworkin, Andrea

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0465017525 ISBN 13: 9780465017522

Publisher: Basic Books, 2006

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: October 2006 Pages: 352 in Publisher: Basic Books Andrea Dworkin. The the to once called Feminism's Malcolm X. has been worshipped. Reviled. Criticized and analysed - but never ignored The power of her withwriting 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 she's best known for - in which she provoked the argument that ultimately split apart the feminist movement - is being reissued for 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 women's subordination to men. (This argument was quickly - and falsely - simplified to all sex is rape in the public arena. adding fire to D...

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Review:

"The most shocking book any feminist has yet written." Germaine Greer"

Synopsis:

Andrea Dworkin, once called "Feminism's Malcolm X", has been worshipped, reviled, criticized and analysed - 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 she's best known for - in which she provoked the argument that ultimately split apart the feminist movement - is being reissued for 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 women's subordination to men. (This argument was quickly - and falsely - simplified to "all sex is rape" in the public arena, adding fire to Dworkin'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 Dworkin's untimely death in the spring of 200, and the enormous impact of her life and work.

Dworkin's argument, she points out, is the stickiest question of feminism: can a woman fight the power when he shares her bed?

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0465017525
• ISBN 13: 9780465017522
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 349