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Right Wing Women

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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.

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.

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.

We need more books on this subject...and a study of today's elitist pseudo-liberals/progressives is also needed. Where did all the feminists go?

One would think from this sort of awful offal that men are not a gender but a conspiracy. Is it really necessary to explain why people with wombs might think that these wombs serve some purpose other than providing abortionists with something to abort? She talks about Republican women. Hey, why not explain why Natalie Clifford Barney supported Mussolini, or why Eva Braun married Hitler, or why Ingrid Rimland married Ernst Zundel (the holocaust denier)? How about Nesta Webster? The list is a long one. Didn't Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan have wives? Talk about right-wing women! But I think that what Dworkin is really getting at is that any woman who isn't a pinko radical is a traitor to her gender.

Anger is a substitute for analysis, and she thinks that anyone who doesn't tow the "party line" is a right wing women. Women, like men, have different opinions and different issues and acting like an old MALE commissar of the Soviet Union trying to get everyone to tow the party line isn't likely to get her more recruits. Nobody elected her Queen to tell me what I have to believe on every issue to be a feminist.

I very much wanted to like this book, but it was so undisciplined! Andrea does not pay enough attention to the facts, and she lets her emotions run her life for her. I think she should have paid more attention to her teachers in school!