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Andrea Rita Dworkin
September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005
“Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.”
Author, critic and radical feminist. Activist working on behalf of many causes including abortion rights. Advised women and groups on issues of rape, battery, pornography and incest in the United States and abroad. Helped form Woman Against Pornography (WAP), 1979.
More About Andrea:
- Obituary, The New York Times
- “My Name Is Andrea,” a film by Pratibha Parmar
- “Andrea Dworkin’s Last Rape,’ by John Stoltenberg, April 2021
- “Andrea Dworkin: The Feminist as Revolutionary,” Gives the Groundbreaking Feminist Her Due
- “Why Andrea Dworkin is the radical, visionary feminist we need in our terrible times,” by Julie Bindel for The Guardian, April 2019.
- Papers of Andrea Dworkin, Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
- Andrea Dworkin Video & Audio File Archive
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Wikipedia
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, page 128