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Feminist author Andrea Dworkin dead at 58

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Tuesday April 12, 2005 10:28author by Cate Report this post to the editors

Activist campaigned against pornography, its effects on women

The Associated Press
Updated: 9:04 p.m. ET April 11, 2005

NEW YORK - 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. She was 58.

Dworkin died Saturday at her home in Washington, D.C., said John Stoltenberg, who married Dworkin in 1998 after living with her for three decades. She had been ill several years, and suffered from ailments including osteoarthritis.

“Pornography is used in rape — to plan it, to execute it, to choreograph it, to engender the excitement to commit the act,” Dworkin testified before the New York Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography in 1986, according to a transcript posted on her Web site.

Dworkin’s first book, “Woman Hating,” published when she was 27, launched her lifelong advocacy on the ways pornography harms women. She campaigned frequently on the subject, helping to draft a 1983 law that defined pornography as a civil rights violation against women, her agent, Elaine Markson, said in a statement.

The law was inspired by the case of Linda Marchiano, who as Linda Lovelace appeared in the pornographic film “Deep Throat,” the statement noted.

‘Writers who help the human race evolve’
“In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve,” said fellow feminist Gloria Steinem. “Andrea is one of them.”

Dworkin, originally from Camden, N.J., wrote more than a dozen books, including “Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women’s Liberation,” which won the American Book Award in 2001. She was working on a book with the working title “Writing America: How Novelists Invented and Gendered a Nation,” when she died, Stoltenberg said.

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Excellent Andrea Dworkin quotes     Cate    Tue Apr 12, 2005 10:32 
   Andrea Dworkin has died .:. Rest     sofia    Tue Apr 12, 2005 10:44 
   Do not dismiss the role the Porn / Sex industry plays in imperialism.     -    Tue Apr 12, 2005 10:53 
   link to Other Press section Obit.     -    Tue Apr 12, 2005 10:58 
   "the only thing pornography causes is the solitary act of masturbation"     gore vidal    Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:08 
   Sickboy :- "punters want to see anal they want to see the bitch suffer"     irvine welsh    Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:27 
   Disgusting     Cate    Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:56 
   just because a book reaches the best-seller list Cate     -    Tue Apr 12, 2005 13:36 
   Andrea Dworkin's Death: No Small Cause for Celebration!     Mirha-Soleil Ross    Tue Apr 12, 2005 22:16 
 10   the woman was crackers     Barry    Tue Apr 12, 2005 23:18 
 11   Ding Dong the wicked witch     Pro Femme    Wed Apr 13, 2005 00:37 
 12   "In a patriarchal society ...     Cate    Wed Apr 13, 2005 01:54 
 13   Dworkin Obit - syndicated to mainstream english lanuage press :-     Obit    Wed Apr 13, 2005 09:37 
 14   Misandry     Brian    Thu Apr 14, 2005 12:37 
 15   All heteorsexual intercourse is not rape     Marge    Fri Apr 15, 2005 02:38 
 16   pornography has been used since the time of the french revolution     young FG    Fri Apr 15, 2005 13:40 
 17   The name is     A10    Fri Apr 15, 2005 14:05 
 18   Nonsense     Brian    Fri Apr 15, 2005 16:25 
 19   While not agreeing with much of Dworkin     R. Isible    Fri Apr 15, 2005 18:14 
 20   'Possession of women by men in marriage'?     Brian    Mon Apr 18, 2005 16:55 
 21   Andrea Dworkin Internet Memorial     Nikki Craft    Tue Apr 19, 2005 02:22 
 22   Feminism - Interesting Atricle     Brian    Wed Apr 20, 2005 12:51 
 23   first and last defence of Harney     woeman    Wed Apr 20, 2005 13:23 
 24   why are we discussing an out of date ideology     binperson    Wed Apr 20, 2005 17:42 
 25   Historical View     Czolgosz    Sat Apr 23, 2005 20:36 
 26   Of course men arent all rapists!     kela    Wed Mar 01, 2006 13:13 


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