In sixth grade, the administration at her new school punished her for refusing to sing " Silent Night" (as a Jew, she objected to being forced to sing Christian religious songs at school). When Dworkin was ten, her family moved from the city to the suburbs of Cherry Hill, New Jersey (then known as Delaware Township), which she later wrote she "experienced as being kidnapped by aliens and taken to a penal colony". Though she described her Jewish household as being in many ways dominated by the memory of the Holocaust, it nonetheless provided a happy childhood until she reached the age of nine, when an unknown man molested her in a movie theater. Her relationship with her mother was strained, but Dworkin later wrote that her mother's belief in legal birth control and abortion, "long before these were respectable beliefs", inspired her later activism. Her father was a school teacher and dedicated socialist, whom she credited with inspiring her passion for social justice. Her father was the grandson of a Russian Jew who fled Russia when he was 15 years old in order to escape military service, and her mother was the child of Jewish immigrants from Hungary. Biography Early life Īndrea Dworkin was born on September 26, 1946, in Camden, New Jersey, to Harry Dworkin and Sylvia Spiegel.
She described a male supremacist political ideology manifesting in and constituted by rape, battery, prostitution, and pornography.
She theorized the sexual politics of intelligence, fear, courage, and integrity. She interrogated premises underlying concepts such as freedom of the press and civil liberties. She wrote on a wide range of topics including the lives of Joan of Arc, Margaret Papandreou, and Nicole Brown Simpson she analyzed the literature of Charlotte Brontë, Jean Rhys, Leo Tolstoy, Kōbō Abe, Tennessee Williams, James Baldwin, and Isaac Bashevis Singer she brought her own radical feminist perspective to her examination of subjects historically written or described from men's point of view, including fairy tales, homosexuality, lesbianism, virginity, antisemitism, the State of Israel, the Holocaust, biological superiority, and racism. The central objective of Dworkin's work is analyzing Western society, culture, and politics through the prism of men's sexual violence against women in a patriarchal context. Another three volumes were co-written or co-edited with US Constitutional law professor and feminist activist, Catharine A. They are found in a dozen solo works: nine books of non-fiction, two novels, and a collection of short stories. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. Andrea Rita Dworkin (Septem– April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography.
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