Right Wing Women [Mass Market Paperback]

Andrea Dworkin (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 255 pages
• Publisher: Perigee Trade (April 1, 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0399506713
• ISBN-13: 978-0399506710
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #848,621 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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29 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ever wonder why some women are so antifeminist?, February 12, 2001

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Shawna Mickelson (Phoenix, Az USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Right Wing Women (Mass Market Paperback)

What's in it for them? Here is Andrea Dworkin to tell you in superb detail exactly why right-wing women stand against their sisters. She explains with in-your-face language how the right has managed to be highly successful in opposing women's rights. Dworkin pulls no punches and will never apologize for telling it like it is. This book is incredibly inspiring and significant.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Continues to be timely, February 20, 2011

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H. Chase "Woman of Leisure" (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Right Wing Women (Mass Market Paperback)

I think it is interesting that a few reviewers of this book cast the insult "hysterical" and "over emotional" at Dworkin without any sense of irony -- for hundreds of years women's thoughts and philosophical treatments have been dismissed as unserious by labeling them "emotional", as though the Declaration of Independence, the Wealth of Nations, and anything by Thomas Paine were not also written with passion. But this is a work by a woman, and thus it goes...

This work is very important in understanding the experience and motivation of women like Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman, Anne Coulter, and other right wing women who attack feminism even while they are the beneficiaries of its work. Unfortunately, I think this book is going to become even more relevant in the coming years, and so I recommend it to all women -- particularly Republican/conservative women -- and encourage its reading with a subjective introspective view.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars insightful, October 18, 2007

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Jennifer Armstrong (Perth, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Right Wing Women (Mass Market Paperback)

This book shows how many women failed to escape patriarchal discipline, which trapped them in its nets despite their feeling that they were rebelling. It is an indictment upon a society in which many women are only educated to high school level, and barely have the theoretical backgrounds which would enable them to escape the nets of patriarchal power over them. Dawkin supplies us with the theoretical background for a deeper understanding of patriarchy -- and understanding that has historically been missing.