The failure of feminists to disavow Dworkin reveals the movement’s extreme misandry. by Janice Fiamengo. Her special focus was the degradation for women of sex itself: regular sex, the commonly accepted, normalized indignity that men allegedly inflict on women every day. Tempering her words in the white-heat of her revulsion, Dworkin became feminism’s anti-sex evangelist.

by Michelle Goldberg. Sex positivity — the idea that feminism should privilege sexual pleasure and fight sexual repression — has dominated feminism for most of my life. It was a reaction to puritanical trends in feminism that ignored the reality of women’s desires. Some second-wave feminists had treated heterosexual sex — as well as remotely […]

https://quillette.com/2019/05/15/last-days-at-hot-slit-a-review/ A review of Last Days at Hot Slit—The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin edited by Johanna Fateman and Amy Scholder. (Semiotext(e), March 2019) In my 2016 book Porn Panic!  Jerry Barnett Dworkin and Mackinnon created the language and the methodology of pro-censorship feminism. In their hands, feminism was subtly twisted from a declaration of female agency and power […]

by John Heidenry. Endowed with ferocious legal cunning, she [MacKinnon] was to play Robespierre to Dworkin’s pamphleteering, emotional Marat in the radical feminist Reign of Terror against men that was to wash over the country in the coming decade.

by Sheila Jeffreys. The last chapter considers how we can move beyond heterosexuality as a political institution and the form of desire, heterosexual desire, which derives from it. No liberation is possible for women in a world in which inequality, and specifically the inequality of women, is sexy.

by Andrea Dworkin But Greer has another side which allies itself with the worst of male chauvinism… In an interview in the Amerikan Screw, reprinted in Suck under the tide “Germaine: ‘I am a Whore, ’ ” she stated: Ideally, you’ve got to the stage where you really could ball everyone — the fat, the […]