| Description |
xvii, 267 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
My life as a writer -- In memory of Nicole Brown Simpson -- Living in terror, pain: being a battered wife -- The third rape -- Gary Hart and post-pornography politics -- A government of men, not laws, not women -- Portrait of a new puritan -- and a new slaver -- Free expression in Serbian rape/death camps -- Beaver talks -- Mass murder in Montreal: the sexual politics of killing women -- Terror, torture, and resistance -- Pornography happens -- Prostitution and male supremacy -- Freedom now: ending violence against women -- Remember, resist, do not comply -- Race, sex, and speech in Amerika -- Women in the public domain: sexual harassment and date rape -- Israel: whose country is it anyway? -- The U.S. Holocaust memorial museum: is memory male? |
| Summary |
A collection of her most incisive essays and unpublished speeches, Life and Death makes it clear why Dworkin has found her place in the canon of modern political thought. She begins here with a poignant autobiographical piece, in which she recounts with rare tenderness her childhood in Camden, New Jersey, her political odyssey, and the crushing pain of her brother's death. Lending her hand to tragic current events, or what she calls "emergencies," like the murder of |
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Nicole Brown Simpson, the Hedda Nussbaum child abuse case, and the mass murder of female students at a college in Montreal, Dworkin makes clear in her inimitable way the obvious things we stubbornly fail to notice. Finally, she guides us back to the core issues at stake in women's lives - pornography, domestic violence, rape, and prostitution - and reminds us that even after decades of feminist so-called progress, gender is an ongoing war |
| Notes |
Articles originally published 1987-1995 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Women -- Crimes against.
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Sex discrimination against women.
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Feminist theory.
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| LC no. |
96038335 |
| ISBN |
0684835126 |
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9780684835129 |
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9780743236263 |
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0743236262 |
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