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After she left de Bruin late in 1971, Dworkin said her ex-husband attacked, persecuted, and harassed her, beating her and threatening her whenever he found where she was hiding.
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Perhaps the Dworkin revival says less about Americans’ capacity to change their minds and more about the ability of powerful writing to succeed eventually. And Dworkin is a powerful writer. Her prose seizes even a hostile reader by the throat and refuses to let go. For example, in ‘Whores’, a chapter of her 1981 book Pornography: Men Possessing Wom...
Duberman gives us a story that explains the urgency Dworkin brought to the struggle against sexual violence. Born to working-class parents in Camden, New Jersey, she was a bookish child who inhaled knowledge. She was raised by a chronically ill, demanding mother and a hard-working father who often worked double shifts at the post office and sometim...
In New York, Dworkin and Stoltenberg became part of a radical feminist movement that offered a context for Andrea’s work and complicated it by situating her in an intellectual world that could be fractious, competitive and backbiting. Frustratingly, Dworkin’s writing was less sought after by publishers than the work of movement stars like Gloria St...
But Dworkin was a compelling and persuasive speaker. She was frequently on the debate stage, and her thinking crystallized around the idea that pornography was the primary instrument for gender subordination. After she and legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon introduced a model legislative ordinance to the Minneapolis city council that would permit an...
One theme of Dworkin’s life that has yet to be explored is the lasting effects of the beatings she endured in Amsterdam, attacks which sometimes left her unconscious after de Bruin punched her in the face and banged her head against floors and walls. Dworkin downplayed these experiences for many years, partly out of fear that her ex-husband could f...
In 1969 Dworkin moved to Amsterdam and married a radical activist, Cornelius Dirk de Bruin (also called Iwan), and together they helped American military deserters from the Vietnam War escape to Sweden. Her husband brutalized her, however, and stalked her when she left him in 1971.
Feb 15, 2022 · Dworkin died in 2005, still writing furiously but with the lively movement that had inspired her readership mired in either academic theory or celebrations of female political and corporate firsts.
Apr 15, 2005 · Times Staff Writer. Andrea Dworkin, the feminist author whose radical analyses of male-female relations and unrelenting attacks on pornography made her a prominent, often polarizing, figure in...
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Jun 27, 2019 · No less a sex-positive cultural force than Susie Bright—columnist, sex expert, author and anthologizer of erotica— praised Dworkin soon after she died in 2005 in an obituary she published on her blog.
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Jun 25, 2023 · In 1969, she married one of them, a man named Cornelius de Bruin. It was a disastrous marriage; de Bruin repeatedly brutalized her, and stalked her even after the marriage ended, in...
