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On Yom Kippur, Jews of antiquity would sacrifice two goats: one killed as an offering to a harsh and judging god, the other taken to the wilderness and turned loose, a carrier of the sins of the group. Throughout history, argues brilliant feminist critic Andrea Dworkin, women and Jews have been stigmatized as society's scapegoats. In this stunning and provocative book, Dwo
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Paperback, 448 pages
Published
April 5th 2002
by Free Press
(first published 2000)
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- Really interesting ideas to digest. The masculinity in the construction of the modern Israeli struck me. Her comments on feminization of Jewish men were nicely put. The chapter on Memory/Denial was especially interesting to me.
- Disorganized writing. Blocks on blocks of text with little pause, overwhelming to look at. Snippets from others strung together in odd ways. Difficult, frustrating read. I felt like I was trying to push through to find what interested me, and the writing nearly m ...more
- Disorganized writing. Blocks on blocks of text with little pause, overwhelming to look at. Snippets from others strung together in odd ways. Difficult, frustrating read. I felt like I was trying to push through to find what interested me, and the writing nearly m ...more
The Goodreads summary of this book of 2000 is accurate; one's views on rape, sexism, racism will be altered. It is certainly a disturbing book to read. Every page has new and provocative insights, draws unusual parallels. Enough food for thought for a lifetime, I would say.
This view of humans as having an almost universal need to denigrate and humiliate groups of people 'inferior' to them is alarming and depressing, and I have to say it voices what have become my views [and much more].
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This view of humans as having an almost universal need to denigrate and humiliate groups of people 'inferior' to them is alarming and depressing, and I have to say it voices what have become my views [and much more].
Compelling book.
Is a very intense reading, overwhelming, Andrea compile a huge ammount of information of jewish-hating and misoginy and the relation between them. Is a highly scholarly and well-research book, I found very clarifying her analysis on the sexual politics of hate and the creation of the scapegoat.
My inconvenient with the book is the (truly amazing) erasure of jewish-womyn perspectives, when Andrea write about jews she seem to be speaking of jewish men, jewish women are addressed in a distinct ...more
My inconvenient with the book is the (truly amazing) erasure of jewish-womyn perspectives, when Andrea write about jews she seem to be speaking of jewish men, jewish women are addressed in a distinct ...more
andrea dworkin is, uh, challenging to read for like a whole slew of reasons. graphically blunt presentation of horrifying statistics and anecdotes, an aggressively second-wave feminist (i don't believe the movement should be completely disregarded in light of newer, more intersectional conceptions of feminism [por que no los dos?]), and wildly disorganized ideas, quotes, and citations. that said, i find her ideas worth parsing and all of those points just add up to the visceral urgency that she felt writ(i
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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 ...more
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 ...more
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“Often, to keep the family together, the woman will accept repeated beatings and rapes, emotional battering and verbal degredation; she will be debased and ashamed but she will stick it out, or when she runs he will kill her. Ask the politicians who exude delight when they advocate for the so-called traditional family how many women are beaten and children raped when there is no man in the family. Zero is such a perfect and encouraging number, but who, among politicians in male-supremacist cultures, can count that high?”
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