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Another three volumes were co-written or co-edited with US constitutional law professor and feminist activist Catharine A. MacKinnon. The central objective of Dworkin's work is analyzing Western society, culture, and politics through the prism of men's sexual violence against women in a patriarchal context.
MacKinnon was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the first of three children (a girl and two boys) to Elizabeth Valentine Davis and George E. MacKinnon; her father was a lawyer, congressman (1947–1949), and judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (1969–1995).
Several decades ago, Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin formulated and advocated for legislation to restrict pornography. Repudiating the obscenity approach, the legislation was shaped as addressing the equal civil rights of women.
In the Eighties Professor Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin drafted an anti-pornography civil rights law in support of which witnesses to the harm done by pornography were called at public hearings in Minneapolis (1983), Indianapolis (1984), Los Angeles (1985), and Boston (1992).
I remember Andrea during the fall of 1983 teaching at the University of Minnesota with Catharine A. MacKinnon at the Law School and also teaching Middlemarch [16] in the Women's Studies department. A little later on, the Civil Rights Ordinance was born.
The Court's decision cited extensively from briefs prepared by the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF), with the support and participation of Catharine MacKinnon. Andrea Dworkin opposed LEAF's position, arguing that feminists should not support or attempt to reform criminal obscenity law.
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On the other hand, critics such as Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon contended that pornography both reflected and prescribed a violent, patriarchal reality.
