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...DIED. ANDREA DWORKIN, 58, provocative feminist author whose writings dramatically influenced, and often polarized, the women's movement of the 1970s and '80s; in her sleep, of undisclosed causes; in Washington D.C. Ignoring critics who mocked her uncompromising polemics and unapologetically unfashionable appearance, she drew on her own experiences as a battered wife and rape victim in such books as Woman Hating and Intercourse. She wrote that pornography was a "celebration of rape and injury to women," sexual intercourse "a means of physiologically making a woman inferior" and marriage a "license to rape." By all accounts a gentle, soft-spoken...
Although women composers are still a distinct minority, Zwilich feels that times are slowly changing. As evidence, she cites such composers as Joan Tower and Elizabeth Larson and says, "In the arts, once the door is open, the door stays open." An unabashed feminist, Zwilich supports the concept of all-women concerts. "I'd love to see the necessity for them simply vanish," she says. "But the reality is they are still needed...
Died. Andrea Dworkin, 58, provocative feminist author whose writings--against pornography in particular--dramatically influenced and often polarized the women's movement of the 1970s and '80s; in her sleep, of undisclosed causes; in Washington. Ignoring critics who mocked her uncompromising polemics and unapologetically unfashionable appearance, she drew on her experiences as a battered wife and rape victim in such books as Woman Hating and Intercourse. She wrote that pornography was a "celebration of rape and injury to women," sexual intercourse a "means of physiologically making a woman inferior" and marriage a "license to rape." By all accounts a gentle...
...writing, "Statistics are like bikinis: what they show is important, but what they conceal is vital." "The message is clear," Coulter responded in her article. "The vital parts are the breasts and the vagina, so go get her." I was surprised to find that the piece made a standard feminist argument against pornography (an "atrocity" in which women are "exploited" and "dehumanized"). Its opening lines are: "Conservatives have a difficult time with women. For that matter...
Coulter--who likes to shock reporters by wondering aloud whether America might be better off if women lost the right to vote--howls at the idea that she was a college feminist. But even today, she can write about gender issues with particular sensitivity. In 2002, after Halle Berry won her Oscar, Coulter said in her column, "Berry's unseemly enthusiasm for displaying 'these babies,' as she genteelly refers to her breasts, reduces the number of roles for any women who lack Berry's beauty-queen features...