september april american radical feminist writer best known criticism pornography argued linked rape forms violence women radical said need liberals widely criticized liberal time maintained dialogue political conservatives wrote related book right wing women suffering abuse husband introduced radical feminist literature began writing coming new_york activist issues writer eventually publishing books feminism late 1970s 1980s known feminist anti pornography movement writing pornography sexuality particularly pornography men possessing women intercourse remain widely known books wrote pornography feminist perspective opposition law worked women pornography considered pornography industry based turning women objects abuse men developed legislative approach based civil rights outlaw pornography allow lawsuits damages efforts largely unsuccessful testified federal commission pornography leading stores withdraw certain magazines sale court ruled government efforts unconstitutional critics argued relationship pornography harm women found canadian court adapted parts theory sex equality opposed parts court view sex positive criticized views denying women agency choice sexual relationships leading called feminist sex wars book intercourse addresses role sexual intercourse society interpreted opposing intercourse example said male domination intercourse critics accused supporting sued court criticism subsequently wrote opposition wrote fiction held time canadian customs authorities released giving rise controversy support law led seizure work said raped hotel controversy truth allegations followed later years suffered severe limited mobility died acute age early life born new_jersey father grandson russian jew fled russia years old order escape military service mother child jewish hungary younger brother mark father dedicated socialist credited inspiring passion social justice relationship mother strained later wrote mother belief legal birth control legal abortion long respectable beliefs inspired later activism described jewish household ways dominated memory holocaust nonetheless provided happy childhood reached age unknown man movie theater family moved city suburbs new_jersey known later wrote experienced kidnapped aliens taken colony sixth grade administration new school punished refusing sing silent night jew objected forced sing christian religious songs school said probably women high school liked scholar began writing poetry fiction sixth grade time lawyer writer interest abortion chose writing room stop high school read encouragement parents particularly influenced beat poets especially included writers admired college early activism student arrested anti vietnam war protest united_nations sent house detention testified doctors gave internal examination rough days spoke public testified grand jury experience media coverage testimony national international news grand jury declined indictment case testimony contributed public outrage inmates prison closed seven years later soon grand jury left liner live greece pursue writing traveled paris athens went live write crete crete wrote series poems titled vietnam variations collection poems prose poems printed island book called child novel style resembling magical realism called notes burning boyfriend reference burned death protest vietnam war wrote poems dialogues hand printed returning united_states book called living crete returned years continued study literature participated campaigns college student conduct code campus abortion vietnam war graduated bachelor degree literature life netherlands graduation moved amsterdam interview dutch movement involved married met soon married said began abuse severely punching kicking burning cigarettes beating legs wooden beam head floor knocked unconscious left late said husband attacked persecuted harassed beating threatening found hiding found desperate money homeless thousands miles family later remarking lived life fugitive desperate life battered woman run away time outcome worked prostitute period feminist fellow sheltered home helped find places stay communal farm deserted buildings tried work money return united_states introduced early radical feminist writing united_states notably inspired sexual politics powerful began work early pieces fragments radical feminist text hatred women culture history including completed draft chapter pornographic magazine suck published group fellow netherlands later wrote eventually agreed help heroin customs return airplane ticket thinking successful return home ticket money caught escape husband abuse going prison deal fell man promised money gave airline ticket returned united_states left amsterdam spoke experiences netherlands emerging feminist movement book begun write agreed complete book eventually titled publish reached united_states memoirs relates conversation vowed life feminist movement sitting talking use knew including prostitution women movement stronger better life movement movement promised honor bound women necessary promised live die need women thirty years ago betrayed return new_york contact feminist movement new_york worked anti war organizer participated demonstrations lesbian rights south_africa feminist poet hired assistant later said worst assistant history world kept believed writer joined feminist consciousness raising group soon involved radical feminist organizing focusing campaigns violence women addition writing activism gained notoriety speaker events organized local feminist groups known passionate speeches aroused strong feelings supporters critics inspired audience action speech night march november speech midwest regional conference titled want hour truce rape relationship met feminist writer activist walked poetry reading material close friends eventually came live wrote series radical feminist books articles publicly wrote love john heart soul described love life continued publicly identify lesbian gay relationship cause people press summarized relationship saying state simplest facts publicly yes live love life partner yes married death said told anybody married people confused think want nonsense critique pornography remembered role speaker writer activist feminist anti pornography movement february took leading role organizing public new_york_city fall joined attempts form radical feminist group members group found women pornography begun distance group differences approach spoke night march november joined women march red light district san_francisco published pornography men possessing women extensively cites examples drawn contemporary historical pornography industry woman argues implicated violence women production abuse women star social consequences consumption encouraging men domination humiliation abuse women civil rights ordinance appeared pornographic film public statements husband beaten raped violently making pornographic films charges public press corps press conference feminist lawyer members press conference began discussing possibility federal civil rights law seek damages makers interested backed discovered statute limitations possible suit passed continued discuss civil rights litigation possible approach pornography fall secured semester appointment teach course literature program teach course pornography details civil rights approach encouragement community activists south minneapolis minneapolis city government hired draft civil rights ordinance amendment minneapolis city civil rights ordinance amendment defined pornography civil rights violation women allowed women claimed harm pornography sue producers distributors civil court damages law passed twice minneapolis city council vetoed times mayor considered wording ordinance vague version ordinance passed indianapolis indiana overturned unconstitutional amendment case american continued support civil rights approach writing activism supported anti pornography organized later campaigns cambridge massachusetts washington pass versions ordinance voter initiative right wing women published right wing women politics females examination women reasons collaborating men limitation women freedom preface british edition stated new right united_states focused especially preserving male authority family promotion versions orthodox religion abortion efforts combat domestic violence time succeeded getting women women women claim acting interests women group act effectively behalf male authority women behalf hierarchy women men behalf women rightful property men behalf religion expression male supremacy taking problem asked right wing women right controlled men enlist participation loyalty right wing women truly hate feminist struggle equality testimony attorney general commission pornography january testified half hour attorney general commission pornography known new_york_city answered questions commissioners completing testimony testimony pornography praised reprinted commission final report marked release holding joint press conference subsequently successfully demanded convenience store chains remove shelves men magazines playboy wrote magazine text pictures promotes rape child sexual abuse demands spread nationally intimidated retailers withdrawing photography magazines campaign eventually amendment prior restraint district_of_columbia playboy testimony replies questions commissioners denounced use criminal stating laws want want understand end agreeing argued laws largely suppressed pornography public view allowing flourish sight suppressed wrong material right material wrong reasons arguing laws woman construction basic women bodies dirty instead offered recommendations commission recommending law enforcement agencies records use pornography violent crimes ban possession distribution pornography prisons prosecutors enforce laws administration priority enforce influenced corrupt organizations act pornography industry congress adopt federal anti pornography civil rights legislation provide civil damages harm inflicted women suggested commission consider creating criminal conspiracy provision civil rights law person civil rights pornography crime traffic pornography women civil rights compared proposal southern poverty law center use civil rights litigation submitted evidence copy book ordeal example abuses hoped remedy saying thing courage public fight happened come help going help testified person commission commissioners seen book intercourse published intercourse extended analysis pornography sexual intercourse argued sort sexual depicted pornography central men women experiences intercourse male society book argues sex society women sexual penetration nature doom women submission immune reform citing pornography literature including madame argued depictions intercourse mainstream art culture consistently emphasized intercourse kind real sex portrayed intercourse violent invasive terms portrayed violence central united male contempt murder woman argued kind depiction enforced male centric view sexuality cultural attitudes combine material conditions women lives society experience intercourse central men women experienced form occupation expected women define status women descriptions cited critics interpreting book claiming intercourse rape generally mechanics sexual intercourse harmful women equality instance says statements intercourse pure sterile formal expression men contempt women reasonably summarized sex rape rejected interpretation argument stating later interview think intercourse sexual pleasure survive equality suggesting misunderstanding came sexual ideology criticizing sex conquest possession violation think men believe need unfair advantage extreme called rape think need butler decision canada ruling butler incorporated elements legal work pornography existing canadian law held canadian law violated canadian citizens rights free speech canadian charter rights freedoms enforced grounds morality community standards law enforced pornography basis charter guarantees sex equality court decision cited extensively prepared support participation opposed leaf position arguing support attempt reform criminal law copies book pornography held inspection agents urban legend books banned canada law promoted butler decision adopt ordinance support decision books released shortly inspected held temporarily standard procedural measure unrelated butler decision fiction published fictional works achieving feminist author activist published collection short stories published novel ice fire published united_kingdom person narrative violence abuse claimed amounts modern feminist famous works aimed depict men harm women normalized political harm eccentric second novel mercy published united_kingdom according telegraph novels popular short fiction novels incorporated elements life themes writing related person narrator critics quoted passages spoken characters ice fire representations views wrote fiction autobiography asking forgiveness want confess know life believe shown faced heart writing comes directly life life directly view look watch life death published collection speeches articles 1990s continuing war women including long autobiographical essay life writer articles violence women pornography prostitution use rape war montreal massacre israel gender politics united_states reviewing life death new republic philosopher criticizes voices contemporary feminism denouncing man argues amendment critiques civil ordinance proposal pornography saying respectable amendment covered speech threats offers misleading advertising medical advice unprotected adds focused attention proper moral target making harm associated opposes adoption pornography ordinance fails distinguish moral legal violations fails demonstrate relationship pornography specific harm holds author printed images words responsible behavior grants power judiciary directed feminist scholarship considerations sex takes place broadly faults economic injustice obsessive focus sexual reducing abuse refusing reconciliation favor violent resistance male violence later life year published lengthy letter describes origins deeply felt hatred prostitution pornography mass produced prostitution history violently inspected prison doctors battered husband numerous men strong opponent president bill_clinton scandal expressed support liberals held equal contempt irritated liberal accepted views strong belief movement needs liberals explained need women walk room right way talk right tone voice access power need line published jews israel compared oppression women persecution jews discussed sexual politics jewish identity called establishment women homeland response oppression women june published controversial articles new statesman guardian stating men raped hotel room paris previous year putting drink disable articles ignited public controversy writers published doubts account opinion supporters reference incident later described widely claim better seen kind artistic emotionally fragile failing health withdrew public life years following articles published autobiography heartbreak soon began speak write interview said thought finished feel new want continue help women published articles guardian began work new book invented nation role development american political cultural identity left unfinished died illness death final years suffered fragile health revealed column guardian weakened nearly crippled past years severe knees shortly returning paris hospitalized high fever blood legs months released hospital increasingly unable bend knees underwent surgery replace knees plastic wrote doctor knows best says begins long case possibly sexual abuse legs weight john partner blames study jewish identity women liberation took years write says book stole health blame drug rape experienced paris newspaper interviewer asked like remembered said museum male supremacy dead like work artifact extinct primitive society died sleep morning april home washington cause death later determined acute years old legacy controversy authored books radical feminist theory numerous speeches articles designed assert presence normalized harm women influential writers american radical feminism late 1970s 1980s characterized pornography industry damaging abuse merely fantasy realm discussed prostitution system exploitation intercourse key site analysis writing influenced inspired work contemporary positions forceful style writing speaking described apocalyptic earned frequent comparisons speakers repeatedly compared style old testament recalls night speech saturday evening culminated night march kind porn district kicked seen living room time seen action spot dubbed rolling thunder trademark employed cult idol object ridicule years later revival tent sat retained respect courage long pornography wars action accomplished thousand took streets early speeches reprinted second book blood later selections speeches reprinted years later letters war zone life death maintained political communication political right wing authored book right wing women reviewed agreement right wing women existence domination men sex class disagreement strategy testified hearing pornography attorney general serving socially conservative president reagan political discourse writer arranged attitude language sharply debate figure intense controversy death conservative gay writer claimed social right liked like essential impulse human beings living freely try control stop good like horrified male sexuality men problem like believe power state censor sexual freedoms like view enormous new freedom women gay people acquired 1960s terrible development human culture conservative journalist complained feminist argued positions stated fact insane criticized called destructive legacy described sad ghost feminism needs published sympathetic celebratory memorials online print longtime friend collaborator published column new_york_times celebrating described literary political career suggested deserved nomination nobel prize literature complained lies views sexuality believed intercourse rape political alliances bed right published republished attempts letters refused physical appearance male writers regarded irrelevant charming mocked turned pornography sued libel courts pornographic lies fantasy satire reports violence suffered hands men aroused skepticism famous example public controversy allegations raped paris wrote article life battered wife netherlands battery response fellow radical feminist argued battered woman indicted failure stop murdering adoptive daughter newsweek initially accepted battery publication declined publish account request attorney according arguing needed publish anonymously protect identity remove references specific injuries provide medical records police records written statement doctor seen injuries instead submitted article los_angeles_times published march critics magazine endorsed closing chapter wrote parent child relationship primarily erotic human relationships primarily erotic taboo denies essential parents love primary energy forces parents constantly seek taboo worst work culture destruction taboo essential development cooperative human community based free flow natural explain supposed involve actual sexual intimacy page earlier characterized meant erotic relationships relationships substance communication touch explicitly distinguished referred fucking work early 1980s onward contained frequent chief forms violence women arguing important understanding condition women crime committed crime victims recover early 1980s public row friend support child pornography said right wants jail responded yes sentimental kill published claim advocated sued libel court dismissed complaint grounds regardless interpretations reflections valid faulty interpretation work placed marketplace ideas legal sense pornography critics especially women identify sharply differ style positions offered nuanced views suggesting called attention real important problems legacy destructive women movement work activism pornography especially form drew heavy criticism groups fact fellow anti pornography criticized legal approach civil rights attracted criticism sex positive known feminist sex wars late 1970s 1980s sex wars series heated debates feminist thought number issues relating sex sexuality sex positive feminist critics criticized legal activism argued work pornography sexuality promoted conservative view sexuality characterized anti sex sex negative criticisms common sexual expression pornography prostitution frequently claimed disregard women agency sex deny women sexual choices countered critics views heading choice sex feminist critics failing question violent political structures confined women choices shaped meaning sex acts publications addition books articles speeches listed wrote wrote additional articles works translated languages published non fiction books new_york books blood sexual politics new_york isbn pornography men possessing women london right wing women politics females london isbn reasons essays new civil rights law recognizing pornography sex discrimination new_york women pornography contains winter pornography civil rights speech extracted pornography censorship ethics second edition isbn spring male flood censorship pornography equality behalf intercourse free press pornography civil rights new day women equality minneapolis minnesota organizing pornography isbn available online letters war zone writings new_york isbn harm way pornography civil rights hearings cambridge massachusetts isbn life death writings continuing war women london jews israel free press heartbreak political memoir feminist militant new_york basic books isbn chapters books pornography happens women richard price pay case racist speech hate propaganda pornography new_york hill biological superiority world dangerous deadly idea jackson scott sue feminism sexuality reader new_york isbn pornography jackson scott sue feminism sexuality reader new_york isbn pornography prostitution beautiful tragic recent history stark sale resisting prostitution pornography isbn non fiction landscape ordinary violence women morgan robin forever women anthology new millennium new_york new_york isbn fiction poetry child crete morning hair new broken heart short stories california frog ice fire novel london isbn mercy new_york walls windows isbn articles liberals feminism radical left california frog called radical men love need pornography california frog spring male flood censorship pornography equality behalf pornography civil rights issue women minneapolis minnesota organizing pornography page page page page pornography civil rights issue women page page spring bait switch prostitution male supremacy law behalf page page listening president rape excerpt note june book review good rape new statesman review lucky isbn september book review closet new statesman review normal cross dressing attitude isbn march day raped new statesman speeches interviews men like pornography prostitution speech international trafficking conference min attorney general commission testimony pornography prostitution violence abuse women november freedom ending violence women speech january taped phone interview interviewed min reviews works ice fire intercourse male female men women reviewed new_york_times intercourse porn reviewed nation intercourse tenth anniversary edition machine archived april reviewed pornography men possessing women witch reading machine archived march reviewed february related work member usage panel
Andrea Dworkin