{"title":"Books by Andrea Dworkin","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780241735930","title":"Right-wing Women","description":"‘Feminism is hated because women are hated’Why do some women support right-wing movements, even though they curtail their freedoms? Andrea Dworkin’s timeless, visionary analysis goes to the heart of this contradiction, exploring the Right’s positions on abortion, sexuality, racism and antifeminism, and showing how it attempts both to exploit and to quiet women’s deepest fears of male violence. The right-wing woman, Dworkin contends, acquiesces to male authority for protection and some semblance of power: because ‘survival depends on it’.   ‘Groundbreaking’ Bella Abzug‘Her razor-sharp analysis of why so many women are attracted to a politics that despises their rights is more relevant today than ever’ Guardian","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54926401208693,"sku":"9780241735930","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780241735930_a9fba315-926b-4532-b208-fa8fa8b0a174.jpg?v=1786012759"},{"product_id":"9780241735954","title":"Woman Hating","description":"‘This book is an action, a political action where revolution is the goal’Andrea Dworkin’s blazing, prophetic debut argued that a deep-rooted hatred of women has been ingrained in society for centuries – and still governs us today. From fairy tales to erotic novels to witch-burnings, she uncovers the ways in which male violence and oppression have been normalized throughout history, and points the way to liberation.   ‘To see where we are going we must understand where we have been. Woman Hating is a much needed and long overdue addition toward that understanding’ Audre Lorde‘A singularly powerful voice … Dworkin [gave] definitive expression to the radical feminist tenet that sexual domination was the beating heart of patriarchy’ Amia Srinivasan, LRB","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54926401306997,"sku":"9780241735954","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780241735954_2652e31e-6593-458b-bab8-e9a54e33c594.jpg?v=1786012762"},{"product_id":"9780241735947","title":"Pornography","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘Pornography is the orchestrated destruction of women’s bodies and souls … it is war on women’Pornography, Andrea Dworkin argued in this landmark work, is about power: the power of owning, of money, of sex.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is not merely violence against women, but the essential DNA of male dominance. As images of women’s bodies continue to be manipulated and consumed, her searing, fearless critique of pornographic media is more urgent and discomfiting than ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A major text for our time’ Adrienne Rich\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Dworkin writes with power, anger, daring – and from a great care and love of womankind’ Alice Walker\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘The woman who showed us the dark core of pornography, the punishing hatred of women that pervades it’ Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54926407926133,"sku":"9780241735947","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780241735947_7dc22c89-9d8a-44df-b70a-69ed41b7188e.jpg?v=1786012761"},{"product_id":"9780465017522","title":"Intercourse","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom one of the boldest, \"most shocking\" (Germaine Greer), and \"uncompromising\" (Mary Daly) feminist writers of the 20th century, \u003ci\u003eIntercourse \u003c\/i\u003eis the book that enraged, inspired, and ultimately split apart the feminist movement when it first published in 1987\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eIntercourse\u003c\/i\u003e, Dworkin argues that in a male supremacist society, sex between men and women constitutes a central part of women's subordination to men. (This argument was quickly-and falsely-simplified to \"all sex is rape\" in the public arena, adding fire to Dworkin's already radical persona.) In her introduction to  this edition of \u003ci\u003eIntercourse\u003c\/i\u003e, Ariel Levy, the author of \u003ci\u003eFemale Chauvinist Pigs\u003c\/i\u003e, discusses the circumstances of Dworkin's untimely death in the spring of 2005, and the enormous impact of her life and work. Dworkin's argument, she points out, is the stickiest question of feminism: Can a woman fight the power when he shares her bed?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Andrea Dworkin, once called \"Feminism's Malcolm X,\" has been worshipped, reviled, criticized, and analyzed-but never ignored. The power of her writing, the passion of her ideals, and the ferocity of her intellect have spurred the arguments and activism of two generations of feminists.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56289590804853,"sku":"9780465017522","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780465017522_4a459b3d-73cc-44cb-9189-6ef4dd5d756f.jpg?v=1786013787"},{"product_id":"9781635900804","title":"Last Days at Hot Slit","description":"\u003cb\u003eSelections from the work of radical feminist author Andrea Dworkin, famous for her antipornography stance and role in the feminist sex wars of the 1980s.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eRadical feminist author Andrea Dworkin was a caricature of misandrist extremism in the popular imagination and a polarizing figure within the women's movement, infamous for her antipornography stance and her role in the feminist sex wars of the 1980s. She still looms large in feminist demands for sexual freedom, evoked as a censorial demagogue, more than a decade after her death. Among the very first writers to use her own experiences of rape and battery in a revolutionary analysis of male supremacy, Dworkin was a philosopher outside and against the academy who wrote with a singular, apocalyptic urgency.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLast Days at Hot Slit \u003c\/i\u003ebrings together selections from Dworkin's work, both fiction and nonfiction, with the aim of putting the contentious positions she's best known for in dialogue with her literary oeuvre. The collection charts her path from the militant primer \u003ci\u003eWoman Hating\u003c\/i\u003e (1974), to the formally complex polemics of \u003ci\u003ePornography\u003c\/i\u003e (1979) and \u003ci\u003eIntercourse\u003c\/i\u003e (1987) and the raw experimentalism of her final novel \u003ci\u003eMercy \u003c\/i\u003e(1990). It also includes “Goodbye to All This” (1983), a scathing chapter from an unpublished manuscript that calls out her feminist adversaries, and “My Suicide” (1999), a despairing long-form essay found on her hard drive after her death in 2005.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56305182540149,"sku":"9781635900804","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781635900804_762014f1-e71a-4d5a-8f48-68d6471fb339.jpg?v=1786023444"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-andrea-dworkin.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}