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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.
Keywords: equality, civil rights, pornography, art, censorship. Subject. Moral Philosophy Feminist Philosophy. Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online. Several decades ago, Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin drafted legislation to embody and implement their idea that pornography should be treated as a civil rights issue for women.
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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).
Apr 16, 2005 · - The New York Times. Op-Ed Contributor. Who Was Afraid of Andrea Dworkin? By Catharine A. MacKinnon. April 16, 2005. Share full article. ANDREA DWORKIN, an inspiration to so many...
Mar 29, 2024 · Returning to Andrea Dworkin’s thought, this article argues that contemporary feminists must move beyond consent and recenter the problem of violence to theorize rape. Dworkin, alongside Catharine MacKinnon and Carole Pateman, critiques consent for disguising the violence of rape, sex, and pornography.
Andrea Dworkin was never accused of being theoretically sophisticated. She was a magnificent anachronism. Though not well known in the early years of radical feminism, Dworkin became a major figure in feminist theory, and she wrote in the spirit of radical feminism until her death on April 9, 2005.
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.
