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| − | '''Andrea Dworkin''' (1946-2005) was a prominent [[feminist]] writer best known for her opposition to [[pornography]] on the grounds that it provides men with fantasies of degrading, humiliating and controlling women.<ref>Dworkin ... became a strong voice for the position that pornography is a tool by which men control, objectify, and subjugate women. [http://womenshistory.about.com/b/2005/04/12/andrea-dworkin-dies.htm] </ref> | + | '''Andrea Dworkin''' (1946-2005) was a prominent [[radical feminist]] writer best known for her opposition to [[pornography]] on the grounds that it provides men with fantasies of degrading, humiliating and controlling women.<ref>Dworkin ... became a strong voice for the position that pornography is a tool by which men control, objectify, and subjugate women. [http://womenshistory.about.com/b/2005/04/12/andrea-dworkin-dies.htm] </ref> |
She expressed hostility toward men and called herself a [[lesbian]], yet lived with and married a homosexual man.<ref>"Dworkin, as it happens, lived with a man, whom in 1998 she married." [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/jul/02/gender.politicsphilosophyandsociety (The Guardian)]</ref> | She expressed hostility toward men and called herself a [[lesbian]], yet lived with and married a homosexual man.<ref>"Dworkin, as it happens, lived with a man, whom in 1998 she married." [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/jul/02/gender.politicsphilosophyandsociety (The Guardian)]</ref> | ||
Revision as of 15:08, June 6, 2008
Andrea Dworkin (1946-2005) was a prominent radical feminist writer best known for her opposition to pornography on the grounds that it provides men with fantasies of degrading, humiliating and controlling women.[1] She expressed hostility toward men and called herself a lesbian, yet lived with and married a homosexual man.[2]
Notes
- ↑ Dworkin ... became a strong voice for the position that pornography is a tool by which men control, objectify, and subjugate women. [1]
- ↑ "Dworkin, as it happens, lived with a man, whom in 1998 she married." (The Guardian)