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	Andrea Dworkin, 58, Feminist Thinker Wrote Against Pornography, Violence - April 12, 2005 - The New York Sun
		Andrea Dworkin, who died in her sleep at her Washington, D.C., home Saturday night at age 58, was the uncompromising crusader against pornography and violence toward women, whose vituperative writings helped to polarize feminism while casting her in an unattractive light as the woman who said sex was rape.
		Dworkin's sexual politics (as a fellow pioneer, Kate Millet, termed them) emerged directly from her accounts of being violated as a child, raped as a teenager, beaten as a wife, and assaulted as a streetwalker.
		Dworkin was raised in Camden and Delaware Township (now Cherry Hill), N.J., in a leftist-leaning working-class family; her father was a guidance counselor, her mother a secretary.
	www.nysun.com /article/12084 (505 words)

	Obituary for Andrea Dworkin 2005
		Dworkin seems to say we have to encounter those Maoists in day-to-day life the same way MacKinnon says it is necessary to engage Marx for theory purposes, but MIM says that's not enough.
		Dworkin spent her life pointing out what pseudo- feminists would call the objectification of womyn--the treatment of womyn as cattle to be diced, sliced and served up raw or cooked.
		Andrea Dworkin will perhaps best be remembered, at least in MIM circles, as having co-authored with MacKinnon a law against pornography and for working tirelessly to link pornography to rape.
	www.etext.org /Politics/MIM/gender/dworkinobit.html (2419 words)

	Andrea Dworkin: Profile: Virago (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Andrea Dworkin was internationally renowned as a radical feminist and author who helped break the silence around violence against women.
		In her determination to articulate the experiences of poor, lower-class marginal, and prostituted women, Dworkin deepened public awareness of rape, battery, pornography, and prostitution.
		'Dworkin's account of the insidious nature of male power is devastating in its implications at all times, it is her self-imposed mission to bring to light these hidden crimes, and she does so with unflinching clarity'
	www.virago.co.uk /virago/meet/dworkin_profile.asp (288 words)

	Andrea Dworkin
		Andrea Dworkin (born 1946 in Camden, New York[?]) is an American radical feminist and writer.
		Dworkin, together with the feminist lawyer Catharine MacKinnon[?], drafted a proposal for a law that defined pornography as a civil rights violation against women and allowed women harmed by it a chance to sue the producers and distributors of pornography in a civil court for damages.
		Today Andrea Dworkin lives in Brooklyn, New York with her life partner John Stoltenberg[?], who is also a feminist activist.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/an/Andrea_Dworkin.html (273 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Feminist Andrea Dworkin dies at 58
		Andrea Dworkin, a feminist who viewed pornography as a violation of women's civil rights and a direct cause of rape and violence, has died, her agent and family said Monday.
		Dworkin's first book, "Woman Hating," published when she was 27, launched her lifelong advocacy on the ways pornography harms women.
		Dworkin, a feminist who viewed pornography as a violation of women's civil rights and a direct cause of rape and violence, has died, her agent and family said Monday April 11, 2005.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2005/04/11/feminist_andrea_dworkin_dies_at_58 (378 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Opinion / Op-ed / The misdirected passion of Andrea Dworkin
		Still, with Dworkin's admirers hailing her as a titan of modern feminism, obituaries describing her as a controversial but noble crusader against pornography and violence, and even some of her feminist critics paying homage to her alleged achievements, it's important to set the record straight.
		While Dworkin spoke passionately on behalf of women who are battered and raped, her advocacy was undercut by her bizarre claims -- for instance, that the high rate of Caesarean sections in the United States is driven by the sexual sadism of doctors.
		Yet Dworkin was never relegated to the lunatic fringe where she belonged: Her texts have been widely assigned in women's studies courses, and prominent feminists from activist Gloria Steinem to philosopher Martha Nussbaum have offered their praise, treating her hatemongering as extremism in defense of the oppressed.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/04/18/the_misdirected_passion_of_andrea_dworkin (692 words)

	Andrea Dworkin obituary - Times Online
		Andrea Rita Dworkin was born in 1946 in Camden, New Jersey.
		Dworkin won a scholarship to the progressive Bennington College in Vermont, where she received a BA in 1968.
		Dworkin maintained a deliberately raw appearance, wearing overalls and sneakers and letting her hair fall in an uncombed mane.
	www.timesonline.co.uk /article/0,,60-1566310,00.html (1838 words)

	Andrea Dworkin Biography (Writer/Activist) — FactMonster.com
		Writer Andrea Dworkin was a feminist and activist famous for her passionate campaign against pornography.
		Dworkin openly and frankly discussed traumatic events of her own life, but her work was primarily about society in general and gender roles in particular.
		An unabashed polemic, she was often criticized by the right for being a feminist and lesbian, and by the left for advocating the censorship of pornography.
	www.factmonster.com /biography/var/andreadworkin.html (157 words)

	Cathy Young: Boston Globe - The Misdirected Passion of Andrea Dworkin (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dworkin's defenders insist that she has been unfairly maligned as equating all heterosexual sex with rape when she merely assailed male sexual dominance.
		Dworkin's admirers laud, and wildly exaggerate, her role in the battle against domestic violence and rape; if she deserves "credit" for anything, it's helping infect feminist activism on these important issues with antimale bigotry and paranoia.
		While Dworkin spoke passionately on behalf of women who are battered and raped, her advocacy was undercut by her bizarre claims for instance, that the high rate of Caesarean sections in the United States is driven by the sexual sadism of doctors.
	www.cathyyoung.net /bgcolumns/2005/dworkin.html (669 words)

	Gaire Forums : Andrea Dworkin Dies
		Andrea Dworkin, the radical feminist activist and writer best known for her campaigns against pornography and her love of outsized dungarees, has died at her home in Washington DC.
		Dworkin was particularly upset by the disbelief that greeted her claims in 2000 that she'd been raped and drugged by two men in a Paris hotel room in 1999.
		Andrea Dworkin seemed to be an apparent man-hater who shook up thinking on feminism but her extreme views found little favour among more moderate liberal circles.
	www.gaire.com /e/f/view.asp?parent=327837 (1371 words)

	Andrea Dworkin, Pornography Crusader, Dies at 59 » Outside The Beltway \| OTB (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ms Dworkin’s agent, Elaine Markson, said the cause of death was not known, but she had become increasingly frail as her knees had weakened and she suffered a series of falls.
		Andrea Dworkin was a crusader who shone a light in a dark corner of our culture and we responded very affirmatively that violence against women is unacceptable and will be punished.
		Dworkin, alas, was the classic example of an extremist that the Rushes of the world could turn to as a "typical feminist" in order to discredit feminism.
	www.outsidethebeltway.com /archives/2005/04/feminist_icon_andrea_dworkin_dies_at_59 (2991 words)

	ANDONGKIM.COM - The real legacy of Andrea Dworkin
		The deliberate blurring of these definitions is Dworkin's fundamental error and led ultimately to her malignment and the ease with which (male-led) society was able to demonise her.
		Dworkin redefined sex workers as helpless, passive victims - whereas before they were viewed as fallen, evil women.
		Dworkin might not have actually said "all men are rapists" but she did have the slogan Dead Men Don't Rape above her desk.
	www.andongkim.com /articles/2005/04/legacyofdworkin.htm (1321 words)

	Rad Geek People’s Daily 2005-04-11 – More by and about Andrea Dworkin
		Andrea Dworkin is internationally renowned as a radical feminist activist and author who has helped break the silence around violence against women.
		Dworkin is a threat, of course, to exactly the extent that radical feminists have always posed a threat — pointing out unapologetically the degree to which violence against women and children by men remains rampant.
		Andrea Dworkin, who has died aged 58, was a feminist who came to represent the fierce debate on pornography and sexual violence.
	radgeek.com /gt/2005/04/11/more_by (6141 words)

	Out In The Mountains : Feature - In Memoriam: Andrea Dworkin
		Dworkin was most famous for her book Woman Hating (1974), in which she explored links between women's oppression in patriarchal cultures around the world, from Chinese footbinding to American high heels, from medieval European witch burnings to modern Western pornography.
		Several commentators acknowledged that Dworkin was demonized by anti-feminists, often misrepresented, and when her arguments brooked no serious answer, frequently attacked because of her appearance: she was fat and had long, curly, unruly hair.
		Dworkin's ovular work on pornography as a civil rights/ discrimination issue strengthened the feminist anti-violence movements of the 1980s and made a strong case for connecting violent visualizations with violent actions.
	www.mountainpridemedia.org /oitm/issues/2005/05may2005/fea02_inmemoriam.htm (765 words)

	Andrea Dworkin \| Obituaries \| News \| Telegraph
		Andrea Dworkin, the American radical feminist who has died aged 58, campaigned ferociously against pornography and the abuse of women for almost 40 years; the author of several controversial feminist texts, she dismissed men as moral cretins, said that seduction was hard to distinguish from rape, and regarded pornography as akin to terrorism.
		Andrea Dworkin's most public attack on pornography began in 1980 when she was approached by the ex-porn actress Linda Lovelace, who said that she had been forced to make the film Deep Throat.
		Andrea Dworkin was born into a Jewish family on September 26 1946 at Camden, New Jersey, where she attended a progressive school.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/04/13/db1301.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/04/13/ixportal.html (1146 words)

	Andrea Dworkin
		Andrea Dworkin’s memoir, written in 2002 and republished now on the anniversary of her death last year at the age of fifty-eight, opens with an arresting observation: “I have been asked, politely and not so politely, why I am myself’.
		Dworkin spent her career exploring what she considered the subordination of women, which she saw everywhere from marriage to pornography to conservative politics.
		Andrea Dworkin, the feminist writer and antipornography campaigner whose work was a lightning rod for the debate on pornography and censorship that raged through the United States in the 1980's, died on Saturday at her home in Washington.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /a_dworkin.html (8736 words)

	Andrea Dworkin
		Dworkin’s prolific and powerful writings, particularly her critique of pornography, made her a target for some of the ugliest attacks levied against any feminist over the past four decades, and the label “man-hater” was at the center of the campaign to marginalize her and her ideas.
		Dworkin was called a man-hater not because she hated men but because so many men do not want to face that challenge, so many men will not come to terms with what it will take to end that violence.
		Dworkin is gone, but her challenge remains, and I would like to restate it for men: Before dismissing her work as man-hating, read her work for what we can learn, not just about the experiences of women but about ourselves.
	uts.cc.utexas.edu /~rjensen/freelance/dworkintribute.htm (604 words)

	Andrea Dworkin
		Andrea Dworkin was attacked as much for her personal appearance as for her uncompromising views.
		She had no time for the textual analysis of porn so beloved of academia; what she cared about was the women performing in the films, the harm they suffered, and what other women had to suffer as a result of men watching porn.
		At a time when the subject was simply not mentioned, Dworkin says she was obsessed: "I've been very involved in trying to learn about the Holocaust and trying to understand it, which is probably pointless," she said.
	www.menstuff.org /archives/dworkin.html (1434 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Radical Feminist Writer Andrea Dworkin Dies
		Andrea Dworkin, 58, a self-proclaimed radical feminist whose scathing writings about sexuality, and pornography in particular, made her a provocative icon of the women's movement, died April 9 at her home in Washington.
		Dworkin spent her career exploring what she considered the subordination of women, which she saw everywhere from marriage to pornography to conservative politics.
		Andrea Rita Dworkin was born Sept. 26, 1946, in Camden, N.J., and raised in what became Cherry Hill, N.J. She helped care for her ill mother and was shuffled among other relatives.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A45447-2005Apr11?language=printer (910 words)

	AnotherThink: What Andrea Dworkin Got Right
		Andrea Dworkin was falsely credited with saying "all sex is rape" (a quote that Boston Globe columnist Cathy Young calls "fairly accurate shorthand for [Dworkin's] ravings").
		Dworkin's family was deeply affected by the Holocaust, a horror that shaped her thinking about the terrors that could be wrought by powerful men.
		Dworkin's attacks on the nuclear family, on motherhood, on patriarchy and traditional gender roles all brought scorn from social conservatives who (rightly) feared that feminists intended to destroy the institution of marriage and family.
	www.anotherthink.com /contents/essays_on_faith/20050425_what_andrea_dworkin_got_right.html (4542 words)

	Alas, a blog » Blog Archive » Andrea Dworkin, 1946-2005 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dworkin was a brilliant and powerful writer and thinker, she changed the world for the better, and she will be sorely missed, even by those of us who never knew her.
		Dworkin are lauded and admired, and yes, talked of as a matter of fascinated interest engendered not out of spite or malice, but out of awe.
		Even when I disagree with Andrea Dworkin, the compassion and strength in her writing is a joy to me - and while I don’t agree with some of her harsher statements, I still believe her anger was born out of compassion.
	www.amptoons.com /blog/archives/2005/04/12/andrea-dworkin-1946-2005 (9946 words)

	The passion of Andrea Dworkin - Salon
		To Dworkin's admirers, she was a hot-rod combination of martyr and holy warrior, a survivor of sexual abuse who dared to speak truth to power.
		She was said to have written that all heterosexual intercourse was the equivalent of rape, though she denied that the passage in question amounted to such a claim.
		But Dworkin was also a pioneer of a particular and pernicious type of rhetoric, one currently being used much more effectively by talk radio hosts and the extreme political right.
	www.salon.com /books/feature/2005/04/12/dworkin/index.html (865 words)

	Amazon.ca: Intercourse: Books: Andrea Dworkin (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dworkin argues that in a society where men oppress women, they will use sex for that purpose as well, and that men's sexual dominion over women underpins the whole system of oppression codified in law.
		Dworkin also argues that in "patriarchal" society, sex will hurt women's self esteem, and contribute to the further lowering of her position in life.
		Dworkin needs to learn that there is a hgue difference between disutility and disadvantage on the one hand, and coercion and force on the other.
	www.amazon.ca /Intercourse-Andrea-Dworkin/dp/0684832399 (1585 words)

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