Woman hating by andrea dworkin5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Three years after that first book she began work on her second major work, Pornography: Men Possessing Women, from which her reputation has not yet recovered. ![]() It was as if Dworkin’s feminist career had been pitched right into the backlash. She was a radical feminist who published her first book, Woman Hating, in 1974, four years after the Second Wave’s bright- and quick-burning radical feminist movement had published its major works-Kate Millett’s Sexual Politics, Shulamith Firestone’s The Dialectic of Sex, and Robin Morgan’s Sisterhood is Powerful. Until this moment, Dworkin, who died in 2005, had always been famous primarily for her infamy. This was the sense critics shared in the first slate of reviews of Last Days at Hot Slit, a 2019 anthology edited by Johanna Fateman and Amy Scholder that collects excerpts of Dworkin’s major critical works alongside extracts of novels, lesser-known talks, and previously unpublished essays and letters. Andrea Dworkin is having a moment-finally. ![]()
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