When women are active and spoken, they are evil and must be destroyed. They never think, never act, never speak, never oppose, never question, never feel and never challenge.įirst, they are victims of malignity, and then objects of romantic adoration. They are archetypical “good women” by definition. Andrea takes a dig at how sexism is deeply rooted in our culture and psyche, and in something as minuscule as fairy tales that we grow up reading.Ĭinderella, Sleeping beauty, Rapunzel are all characterized by passivity, beauty, innocence and victimization. Dworkin is not afraid to pitch a future where oppression will continue to prevail if we do not restructure our lives, institutions and privileges. The analysis of sexism in this book articulate what oppression is and how it has always been. The very first paragraph of this book stands testimony to Dworkin’s commitment of smashing misogyny, one word at a time.

It is a part of planetary movement to restructure community forms and human consciousness so that people have more power over their own lives and live with dignity and freedom”. ”This book is an action, a political action where revolution is the goal. She felt the fire of Women’s Movement like very few had felt, and made sure that the spark of revolution doesn’t die down. However, she was unapologetically rebellious. Andrea Dworkin was hated in liberal feminist circles and was called “man-hater, anti-sex and ugly”.

” Women will come back to feminism because things are going to get far, far worse for us before they get any better,” remarked Andrea a few months before she died. This book takes a blunt, humorous and critical approach to misogyny which is typical to all nations and analyzes it through various examples of physical and psychological brutality against women. Andrea Dworkin’s Woman Hating:A Radical Look at Sexuality was published in 1974.

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