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Andrea Dworkin was an American writer and activist known for her work in feminist theory and activism. She focused on issues of pornography, violence against women, and the intersection of gender and politics. Her influential works include 'Intercourse' and 'Pornography: Men Possessing Women'.

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“Especially, [the skin] is both identity and sex, what one is and what one feels in the realm of the sensual, [...] where the self meets the world-intercourse being, ultimately, the self in the act of meeting the world. The other person embodies not one's own privacy, but everything outside it.”

Body Sex Patriarchy

Book:Intercourse

Source: Intercourse

“Men characterize pornography as something mental because their minds, their thoughts, their dreams, their fantasies, are more real to them than women's bodies or lives; in fact, men have used their social power to characterize a $10-billion-a-year trade in women as fantasy.”

Men Years Mind Real Facts Dream Body Used Social Fantasy Trade Billions Pornography Women's Bodies Social Power

Book:Pornography: men possessing women

Source: Pornography: men possessing women

“I love books the way I love nature. ... I can imagine now that a time will come, that it is almost upon us, when no one will love books ... It is no accident, I think, that books and nature (as we know it) may disappear simultaneously from human experience. There is no mind-body split.”

Thinking Knows Way Mind Humans May I Can Book Body Nature Imagine Accidents Disappear Splits Human Experience Mind Body Nature Love

Author:Andrea Dworkin

“We as women know that there are no disembodied processes; that all history originates in human flesh; that all oppression is inflicted by the body of one against the body of another; that all social change is built on the bone and muscle, and out of the flesh and blood, of human creators.”

Knows Humans Body Social Process History Blood Built Creator Bones Flesh Oppression Muscles Social Change Flesh And Blood

Author:Andrea Dworkin

“The utopian male concept which is the premise of male pornography is this--since manhood is established and confirmed over and against the brutalized bodies of women, men need not aggress against each other; in other words, women absorb male aggression so that men are safe from it.”

Men Needs Body Safe Concepts Males Aggression Manhood Pornography Premises Utopian

Author:Andrea Dworkin

“Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who love to hate us. One does does not make choices in freedom. Instead, one conforms in body type and behavior and values to become an object of male sexual desire, which requires an abandonment of a wide-ranging capacity for choice... Men too make choices. When will they choose not to despise us?”

Men World Humans Mean Doe Body Desire Values Hate Choices Objects This World Type Behavior Capacity Female Males Wide Despise Conform Abandonment Love Hate Sexual Desire Body Types

Book:Intercourse

Source: Intercourse

“Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.”

Children Use Body Intelligent Filled Intelligence Belly Starving Swollen

Book:Right Wing Women

Source: Right Wing Women

“Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies.”

Body Expression Pure Feminist Contempt Hateful Intercourse Radical Feminism Women's Bodies Misandry Radical Feminist Man Hating Man Hater

Author:Andrea Dworkin

“The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and grows, feeding on all the life around it, scouring the earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude.”

Men War Enough Body Earth Grows Alive Source Female Hunger Warm Oppression Beast Oppressed Feeding Domination Monstrous Nourishment Servitude

Author:Andrea Dworkin

“Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography.”

Men Body Sex Essentials Pornography Violation Women's Bodies

Book:Intercourse

Source: Intercourse

“The man takes a body that is not his, claims it, sows his so-called seed, reaps a harvest - he colonizes a female body, robs it of its natural resources, controls it.”

Men Body Sex Natural He Man Resources Female Claims Seeds Harvest Reap Natural Resources Female Body

Author:Andrea Dworkin

“Standards of beauty describe in precise terms the relationship that an individual will have to her own body. They prescribe her mobility, spontaneity, posture, gait, the uses to which she can use her body. They define precisely the dimension of her physical freedom and psychological development, intellectual possibility, and creative potential is an umbilical one.”

Use Body Individual Term Creative Possibility Development Intellectual Standards Psychological Dimensions Precise Spontaneity Posture Mobility Gait Standards Of Beauty Psychological Development

Author:Andrea Dworkin

About the Author

Born: September 26, 1946
Died: April 9, 2005
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 214

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