Her anti-pornography rhetoric was translated into legalese by fellow radical feminist and lawyer Catharine MacKinnon. She also analyzed pornography as a form of sexual assault on women. In her book Pornography: Men Possessing Women, she argued that pornography is a misogynistic, dehumanizing industry. Andrea Dworkin, making a valid point about how patrilineality and patrilocality has historically been used to reduce the power of women in communities but then making a parody of herself by using hyperbole and generalisation while not providing adequate references for this “ ”The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it. Her later radicalism and sensationalism further alienated potential allies, but this did not prevent some of Dworkin's supporters from lionising her in their eulogies.

Her activism added fuel to the anti-feminist fire by helping to provoke a split between pro- and anti-sex feminists, alienating liberals who were opposed to anti-pornography laws.

However, Dworkin also made pseudoscientific claims that all males are violent manipulators and that all sex is rape.ĭworkin is primarily known for her crusade against pornography. Most of Dworkin's rhetoric follows the line that gender is a social construct and its deconstruction will leave us all the same as each other (except for the dirty bits). Īndrea Dworkin (1946–2005) was an influential American radical feminist. Andrea Dworkin, making an impressive series of crank points all at once: referencing traditional anarcha-feminism, completely misinterpreting it by using Social Darwinism, and then proclaiming to have a solution despite not challenging existing norms, which is the opposite of anarcha-feminism, all while arbitrarily altering definitions of meaningless, colloquial language to suit this narrative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love. Men are sexually predatory in life and women are sexually manipulative. “ ”You think intercourse is a private act it's not, it's a social act.

Pornography by Andrea Dworkin