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Woman Hating
Paperback, 224 pages
Published
December 1st 1991
by Plume
(first published 1974)
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I had this book forever and finally got around to reading it. Of course I wish I'd read it sooner. The most amazing thing about Woman Hating is that everything Dworkin has to say about women is just as true today, in 2008, as it was when the book was published in 1974. Sure, some things have gotten better for women but other things have remained the same. Sexism is rampant in U.S. society today. Entertainment, music, fashion and so much else contiue to fly whatever flag sells their product while...more
What first struck me while reading this was the realization that, despite what most people say about her, Andrea Dworkin was not "crazy" while writing it. It's hard to argue with her thesis: Western and Eastern civilization and culture, as a matter of course, operated on the degradation and villainization of women, from fairy tales to marrying off your daughters for money to impossible demands for beauty. Men needed women to fuck and make children, and a system was in place to keep them in their...more
Weird in some parts, loved the others. I didn't understand the chapters concerning androgyny and the explanations on incest and bestiality. But an excellent radical feminist tome, regardless.
I wish I'd read this when I was sixteen. For that matter I wish every young woman could.
What sort of crack was Dworkin smoking when she wrote this book? It was her first publication, but that's surely no excuse. She makes some valid points about how misogynist our American society has been/is/can be, then goes on to say we as humans should be so free that we should be able to have sex with anyone we want, regardless of their age or even species. A lot of random ideas thrown together that make absolutely no sense and are, many of which, utterly horrifying.
Feb 22, 2008
Anthony D'Juan Shelton
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Recommends it for:
open minds.
Recommended to Anthony by:
my Mother
i was a kid when i read this. it scared the hell out of me, and i haven't read it since. but i am going to go back to it soon. Dworkin was interesting. her views were WAY OVER the top and left no room to be misunderstood. it's clear. she hated the way men treated women and was in search of revenge (her and Valerie Solanos).
Strong, compelling, clean analysis. The opening section on fairy tales was particularly brilliant. The last twenty or thirty pages or so, I felt a little skeptical about her claims and declarations though. Free download here.
I hate to give this only 2 stars since it had such a profound effect on me, but I think it was the legitimizing anger contained in this book that appealed to me rather than the content itself.
sisters, give yourself some room while reading this one. youll be mad. itll happen.
parts were very good, parts were very boring....
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Andrea Rita Dworkin was an American radical feminist and writer best known for her criticism of pornography, which she argued was linked to rape and other forms of violence against women.
An anti-war activist and anarchist in the late 1960s, Dworkin wrote 10 books on radical feminist theory and practice. During the late 1970s and the 1980s, she gained national fame as a spokeswoman for the feminist...more
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An anti-war activist and anarchist in the late 1960s, Dworkin wrote 10 books on radical feminist theory and practice. During the late 1970s and the 1980s, she gained national fame as a spokeswoman for the feminist...more
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