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Pornography should be banned because it "justifies rape and prostitution by saying women want to be raped and prostituted," feminist Andrea Dworkin said Wednesday night before an audience of 400 at Longfellow Hall...

Author: By Michele R. Campbell, | Title: Dworkin, Dershowitz Face Off Over Legality of Pornography | 5/15/1981 | See Source »

Somehow I had hoped that the reams of feminist criticism of American literary sexism (see Andrea Dworkin's Woman Hating; see my article on Kerouac in the September 1978 Seventh Sister) would knock writers like Mailer off their pedestals, would make younger writers realize that they could criticize an author's male chauvinism while admiring his use of language. Perhaps this is too much to ask of Harvard, where, as we all know, the pugilist has a private little ring at 21 South Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sexual Politics | 5/8/1980 | See Source »

...thing basic to all pornography," feminist author Andrea Dworkin said, "is the idea that 'She wants it'--she 'wants' to be beaten, she 'wants' to be forced, she 'wants' to be raped...brutalized...hurt...

Author: By Cheryl R. Devall, | Title: Hitting the Hard Core Of the Big Apple | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...Dworkin recited a litany of things women do to "lead men on"--go to the movies alone, smile, tell men the time of day, get married, sit on their fathers' laps, and even the way they dress, walk and talk...

Author: By Cheryl R. Devall, | Title: Hitting the Hard Core Of the Big Apple | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...Professor George Christie may be right when he says: "Dworkin misconceives what legal decision making is all about. He views it as the search for right answers rather than a process for producing adequate justifications for legal decisions." If so, then America's courts need Ronald Dworkin very badly. The Pledge of Allegiance says "justice for all," not "justifications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 26, 1977 | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

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