Andrea Dworkin – najbardziej znienawidzona feministka
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2006
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe WNPiD UAM w Poznaniu
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Andrea Dworkin - the most loathsome feminist
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On April 9, 2005, Andrea Dworkin, one of the most controversial figures of the
second wave of feminism, died in Washington. Her statements against violence and
pornography had rather weak theoretical foundations. Her few attempts to provide
a broader background or to give reasons for the discrimination against women are
failures: they are superficial and chaotic. Yet Dworkin was not a theoretician of the
feminist movement, but a practitioner, or even its creator. Her preoccupation with the
struggle against pornography resulted from her own traumatic experience. Dworkin
liked to provoke. She was not attractive, which she ostentatiously emphasized. She
shocked with her language. However, besides excessive vulgarisms, her statements re-
veal the profound passion with which she defended her views. Referring to the emo-
tions of her readers and listeners, she did not conceal her own emotions, therefore her
texts ooze with honesty and naturalness. Loathed by anti-feminists, rejected by the ma-
jority of feminists, she contributed to the creation of the radical dimension of modern
feminism.
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Środkowoeuropejskie Studia Polityczne, 2006, nr 1, s. 159-172.