She was labelled a man-hater, anti-sex and ugly. But she predicted both the ascent of Trump and #MeToo – and her unapologetic attitude is more relevant than ever ‘I can’t come here as a friend, even ...
Photo credit: Bettina Flitner. Courtesy of Kali Films. There aren’t too many figures in feminist history more controversial than Andrea Dworkin. The radical feminist writer and activist, whose work ...
I’m not even sure I understand what Andrea Dworkin was trying to do, entirely, even after submerging myself utterly in her writing; which I did first as a student and then again much more urgently, ...
Fact: if it weren't for the fictional existence of Mr Gradgrind, the writer Andrea Dworkin's enthusiasm for facts would be second to none. Fact: a while back, in an interview with Michael Moorcock, an ...
Andrea Dworkin is still misunderstood. To quote Gloria Steinem, "Hardly anybody is as misunderstood as Andrea." But now, a new anthology of her work aims to put the incendiary ideas that Dworkin ...
In this roughly chronological account of her political formation, Dworkin, a prolific writer and ardent antipornography activist, shares the moments her "memory insists on," things "it will not let go ...
When Andrea Dworkin’s Intercourse hit the bookshops in 1987, it was extolled by Germaine Greer as the “most shocking book any feminist has yet written”. “Shocking” turned out to be an understatement.