Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
DWORKIN'S SECOND BOOK, A COLLECTION OF HER TALKS,
By
This review is from: Our Blood / Andrea Dworkin. (Paperback)
Andrea Rita Dworkin (1946-2005) was an American radical feminist and writer, as well as anti-war activist and anarchist in the 1960s, best known for her criticism of pornography; she was married to John Stoltenberg. She wrote many books, such as Pornography: Men Possessing Women (Plume), Woman Hating (Plume), Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant, Intercourse, Scapegoat The Jews, Isreal, and women's Liberation, Life and Death, Right Wing Women, Letters from a War Zone, Mercy: A Novel, and Ice and Fire : A Novel.
She wrote in the Preface to this 1976 book, "'Our Blood' is a book that grew out of a situation. The situation was that I could not get my work published. So I took to public speaking... I told myself that if publishers would not publish my work, I would bypass them altogether. I decided to write directly to people and for my own voice... I thought that the publication of 'Woman Hating' would establish me as a writer of recognized talent and that then I would be able to publish serious work in ostensibly serious magazines. I was wrong... my book was sabotaged. The publisher simply refused to fill orders for it. Booksellers wanted the book but could not get it... I had nowhere to go, no way to continue as a writer. So I went on the road---to women's groups who passed a hat for me at the end of my talk, to schools where feminist students fought to get me a hundred dollars or so, to conferences where women sold T-shirts to pay me... 'Woman Hating' was written by a younger writer, one more reckless and more hopeful both. This book is more disciplined, more somber, more rigorous, and in some ways more impassioned." Here are some additional quotations from the book: "Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us." (Pg. 45) "As women, we learn fear as a function of our so-called femininity. We are taught systematically to be afraid..." (Pg. 55) "How can we, women, who have been taught to be afraid of every little noise in the night, dare to imagine that we might destroy the world that men defend with their armies and their lives?" (Pg. 62) "Sadly, we are as invisible to ourselves as we are to men. We learn to see with their eyes--and they are near blind. Our first task, as feminists, is to learn to see with our own eyes." (Pg. 62) "...under the very slave conditions which we must repudiate, we have developed a heroic commitment to sustaining and nurturing life." (Pg. 64) "Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination." (Pg. 68)
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product).
|
|
|
