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Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics
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A collection of Dworkin's early speeches.
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Paperback, 118 pages
Published
April 1982
by Women's Press Ltd
(first published 1976)
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The best speech is the last one in which she breaks down toxic masculinity and how to eradicate it. A masterpiece which deconstructs gender roles and advocates for a gender free society. Please read this if you want to understand your own repression and exploitation more fully.
Actual Rating: 10 of 5 thorns
"We live in a male-imagined world, and our lives are circumscribed by the limits of male imagination. Those limits are severe." (page 55)
This book comprises Dworkin's forward-thinking, revolutionary speeches. She explores the nuances of socialized identity with clear, eloquent, quite beautiful, and transformative notes on sexual hierarchy, which are even more relevant today. She analyzes the relationship between masculine and feminine cultural/sexual r ...more
"We live in a male-imagined world, and our lives are circumscribed by the limits of male imagination. Those limits are severe." (page 55)
This book comprises Dworkin's forward-thinking, revolutionary speeches. She explores the nuances of socialized identity with clear, eloquent, quite beautiful, and transformative notes on sexual hierarchy, which are even more relevant today. She analyzes the relationship between masculine and feminine cultural/sexual r ...more
It was an utter joy reading work by a well known, prestigious feminist, Andrea Dworkin. She discusses in this collection of speeches the difficulties women face (and continue to face, more than 40 years later), such as not being taken seriously, being paid less for equal work, the erasure of women from male perspective, the horrors of the sex industry, how western culture often ruthlessly sides with sex offenders, the inherent homosexuality in a male-dominated society, etc. It is a difficult an
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powerful polemic about patriarchal oppression of women. very radical ideas. I defined myself as a radical feminist until I read Dworkin but after I thought about it awhile, I found she expanded my horizons with this book. I quoted excerpts of this book to my Unitarian minister because I was upset he had scheduled a "dinners for 8" round robin for the congregation on the same night as the "Take Back The Night Rally" and I was very angry about that.
Incredible, insightful read. So enlightening. Andrea Dworkin was truly a genius.
Uhm, tengo opiniones, pero en general son las mismas que con cualquier teoría feminista que sea interclasista y que se vaya hacia el determinismo biológico, un día acabare todos los libros de Dworkin y lo articularé todo en una crítica.
Apr 24, 2018
Amy Layton
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I would have loved to hear Dworkin share these speeches. In fact, I think that there's a Youtube hunt about to happen once I have the time to do it...Dworkin never fails to be convincing, compelling, and all-around magnificent and magnanimous. Dworkin is a force to be reckoned with, and her speeches in this anthology reflect not only her empathy, but her radical nature as well. She will not be defeated, and her ideas, through this book, will continue to survive.
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Changed my whole perspective on what I thought radia feminism was. I'm glad I read. Now on to her others.
Sep 26, 2019
Valentina Díaz Kiernan
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An eye-opening book that changed many perspectives in me
Still relevant! Don't let the prejudice people have about her influence you, she says very reasonable things here, things we need to listen right now. This is a good book to start with radical feminism, we are not evil witches, we just want to get to the origin of the problem and fix it, evil, right? lol
A more accurate rating would be 1.5 stars.
This book is a series of speeches, and as such, it's a mixed bag that repeats itself at some points. Most of the things she blames male sexuality for, are incorrect understandings of religion (for example, I don't think that Deuteronomy 21, 10-14 reads as a justification for rape... on the contrary, the fact that the woman cannot be sold if she rejects him, forbids slavery and profit) even on the part of the men who professed them, or things that religi ...more
This book is a series of speeches, and as such, it's a mixed bag that repeats itself at some points. Most of the things she blames male sexuality for, are incorrect understandings of religion (for example, I don't think that Deuteronomy 21, 10-14 reads as a justification for rape... on the contrary, the fact that the woman cannot be sold if she rejects him, forbids slavery and profit) even on the part of the men who professed them, or things that religi ...more
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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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“Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and all personal relationships.”
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“The real core of the feminist vision, its revolutionary kernel if you will, has to do with the abolition of all sex roles - that is, an absolute transformation of human sexuality and the institutions derived from it. In this work, no part of the male sexual model can possibly apply. Equality within the framework of the male sexual model, however that model is reformed or modified, can only perpetuate the model itself and the injustice and bondage which are its intrinsic consequences.
I suggest to you that transformation of the male sexual model under which we now all labor and "love" begins where there is a congruence, not a separation, a congruence of feeling and erotic interest; that it begins in what we do know about female sexuality as distinct from male - clitoral touch and sensitivity, multiple orgasms, erotic sensitivity all over the body (which needn't - and shouldn't - be localized or contained genitally), in tenderness, in self-respect and in absolute mutual respect. For men I suspect that this transformation begins in the place they most dread - that is, in a limp penis. I think that men will have to give up their precious erections and begin to make love as women do together. I am saying that men will have to renounce their phallocentric personalities, and the privileges and powers given to them at birth as a consequence of their anatomy, that they will have to excise everything in them that they now value as distinctively "male." No reform, or matching of orgasms, will accomplish this.”
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I suggest to you that transformation of the male sexual model under which we now all labor and "love" begins where there is a congruence, not a separation, a congruence of feeling and erotic interest; that it begins in what we do know about female sexuality as distinct from male - clitoral touch and sensitivity, multiple orgasms, erotic sensitivity all over the body (which needn't - and shouldn't - be localized or contained genitally), in tenderness, in self-respect and in absolute mutual respect. For men I suspect that this transformation begins in the place they most dread - that is, in a limp penis. I think that men will have to give up their precious erections and begin to make love as women do together. I am saying that men will have to renounce their phallocentric personalities, and the privileges and powers given to them at birth as a consequence of their anatomy, that they will have to excise everything in them that they now value as distinctively "male." No reform, or matching of orgasms, will accomplish this.”
