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Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist and writer best known for her criticism of pornography, which she linked with rape and other forms of violence against women.

An anti-war activist and anarchist in the late 1960s, Dworkin became a radical feminist and published ten books on radical feminist theory and practice. During the late 1970s and the 1980s, Dworkin gained national fame as a spokeswoman for the feminist anti-pornography movement, and for her writing on pornography and sexuality, particularly in Pornography: Men Possessing Women and Intercourse, which remain her two most widely known books.

Contents 1 Critique of pornography 2 Publications 2.1 Nonfiction 2.2 Fiction and poetry 2.3 Numbered short articles

Critique of pornography

Andrea Dworkin is most often remembered for her role as a speaker, writer, and activist in the feminist anti-pornography movement. Her critique of pornography began with Woman Hating, in which she offered a critical analysis of the contemporary pornography, in the novels Story of O and L'Image, and in the counterculture pornographic newspaper Suck. Dworkin argued that pornography presented the adult and explicit development of the sexual politics expressed implicitly for children in fairy tales, and that it portrayed women as passive victims, whose identity was expressed in eroticized degradation, humiliation, or outright violence.

Publications

Nonfiction

• Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant (2002) ISBN 0-465-01754-1
• Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation (2000) ISBN 0-684-83612-2
• Life and Death: Unapologetic Writings on the Continuing War Against Women (1997) ISBN 0-684-83512-6
• In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (with Catharine MacKinnon, 1997) ISBN 0-674-44579-1
• Letters from a War Zone: Writings (1988) ISBN 1-55652-185-5 ISBN 0-525-24824-2 ISBN 0-436-13962-6
• Pornography and Civil Rights: A New Day for Women's Equality (1988) ISBN 0-9621849-0-X
• Intercourse (1987) ISBN 0-684-83239-9
• Right-Wing Women: The Politics of Domesticated Females (1983) ISBN 0-399-50671-3
• Pornography—Men Possessing Women (1981) ISBN 0-399-50532-6 — Online summary, excerpts
• Our Blood: Prophesies and Discourses on Sexual Politics (1976) ISBN 0-399-50575-X ISBN 0-06-011116-X
• Woman Hating: A Radical Look at Sexuality (Dutton, 1974) ISBN 0-452-26827-3 ISBN 0-525-48397-7

Fiction and poetry

• Mercy (1990, ISBN 0-941423-88-3)
• Ice and Fire (1986, ISBN 0-436-13960-X)
• The New Woman's Broken Heart: Short Stories (1980, ISBN 0-9603628-0-0)
• Morning Hair (self-published, 1968)
• Child (1966) (Heraklion, Crete, 1966)

Numbered short articles

• ASIN B0006XEJCG (1977) Marx and Gandhi were liberals: Feminism and the "radical" left
• ASIN B0006XX57G (1978) Why so-called radical men love and need pornography
• ASIN B00073AVJA (1985) Against the male flood: Censorship, pornography and equality
• ASIN B000711OSO (1985) The reasons why: Essays on the new civil rights law recognizing pornography as sex discrimination
• ASIN B00071HFYG (1986) Pornography is a civil rights issue for women
• ASIN B0008DT8DE (1996) A good rape. (Book Review)
• ASIN B0008E679Q (1996) Out of the closet.(Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Cross-Dressing Cops and Hermaphrodites with Attitude)(Book Review)
• ASIN B0008IYNJS (1996) The day I was drugged and raped