Renewed interest in Dworkin: The anthology of her work was published in March 2019, Last Days at Hot Slit, was the occasion for long, in-depth articles on Andrea Dworkin and her current relevance in the New York Times, the New Yorker, Book Forum, the New York Times Book Review, the L.A. Review of Books, Jacobin, and other publications. Award-winning historian: Martin Duberman is the recipient of the Bancroft Prize, multiple Lambda Literary Awards, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Historical Association, and he has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Material: Duberman was given exclusive access to Andrea Dworkin's archives. The book features never-before-published photographs and letters--years of correspondence with well-known feminists, including Gloria Steinem, Susan Brownmiller, Phyllis Chesler, Catherine MacKinnon, Robin Morgan, etc.
From one of America's leading biographers, the definitive story of the radical feminist and anti-pornography activist, based on exclusive access to her archives Fifteen years after her death, Andrea Dworkin remains one of the most important and challenging figures in second-wave feminism. Although frequently relegated to its more radical fringes, Dworkin was without doubt a formidable and influential writer, a philosopher, and an activist--a brilliant figure who inspired and infuriated in equal measure. Her many detractors were eager to reduce her to the caricature of the angry, man-hating feminist who believed that all sex was rape, and as a result, her work has long been misunderstood. It is in recent years, especially with the rise of the #MeToo movement, that there has been a resurgence of interest in her ideas. This biography is the perfect complement to the widely reviewed anthology of her writing, Last Days at Hot Slit, published in 2019, providing much-needed context to her work. Given exclusive access to never-before-published photographs and archives, including her letters to many of the major figures of second-wave feminism, award-winning biographer Martin Duberman traces Dworkin's life, from her abusive first marriage through her central role in the sex and pornography wars of the following decades. This is a vital, complex, and long overdue reassessment of the life and work of one of the towering figures of second-wave feminism.
From one of America's leading biographers, the definitive story of the radical feminist and anti-pornography activist,