Life and Death Paperback - 1997

Name: Life and Death
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Author: Dworkin, Andrea
ISBN: 9780743236263

by Andrea Dworkin

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Fifteen years ago, Dworkin raised her inimitable voice against misogyny and found her way into the canon of American political philosophy, establishing herself as one of the country's most explosive and trenchant social critics. This collection brings together Dworkin's most important essays, speeches, and sharp commentary on current events, from the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson to the atrocities committed against Bosnian women in Serbian death camps.

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From the publisher

From Simon & Schuster, Life and Death by Andrea Dworkin is the unapologetic writing on the continuing war against women.

In this important work, Dworken gathers essays published between 1987 and 1995, in which she comments on society's ongoing and tacit approval of aggression against women that often ends in these women losing their lives.

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I come from Camden, New Jersey, a cold, hard, corrupt city, and-now having been plundered by politicians, some of whom are in jail-also destitute.

From the rear cover

A collection of her most incisive essays and unpublished speeches, Life and Death makes it clear why Dworkin has found her place in the canon of modern political thought. She begins here with a poignant autobiographical piece, in which she recounts with rare tenderness her childhood in Camden, New Jersey, her political odyssey, and the crushing pain of her brother's death. Lending her hand to tragic current events, or what she calls "emergencies", like the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson, the Hedda Nussbaum child abuse case, and the mass murder of female students at a college in Montreal, Dworkin makes clear in her inimitable way the obvious things we stubbornly fail to notice. Finally, she guides us back to the core issues at stake in women's lives - pornography, domestic violence, rape, and prostitution - and reminds us that even after decades of feminist so-called progress, gender is an ongoing war.

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Title Life and Death
Author Andrea Dworkin
Binding Paperback
Edition Original e
Pages 256
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Free Press
Publication date 1997-03-01
Features Bibliography, Index
ISBN 9780743236263 / 0743236262
Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
Dimensions 8.98 x 6.16 x 0.7 in (22.81 x 15.65 x 1.78 cm)
Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
Category Sociology
Library of Congress subjects Feminist theory, Women - Crimes against
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 96038335
Dewey Decimal Code 362.880

About the author

Andrea Dworkin was the co-author, with Catharine A. MacKinnon, of civil rights legislation recognizing pornography as legally actionable sex discrimination. She wrote eleven books, including Pornography, Heartbreak, and Scapegoat. She died in April 2005 in Washington, D.C.