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Andrea Rita Dworkin – amerykańska feministka radykalna, jedna z najważniejszych postaci feminizmu drugiej fali.

Prace Dworkin mają ogromne znaczenie ze względu na demaskatorski charakter ukrytych sfer przemocy seksualnej i dyskryminacji kobiet w systemie patriarchalnym.

Dworkin była inicjatorką antypornograficznego nurtu feminizmu. Swoje poglądy wyłożyła w najsłynniejszej pracy z 1981 roku "Pornography. Men possessing women". Ich podstawą było zakwestionowanie pojęcia pornografii jako materiałów erotycznych - według Dworkin pornografia jest formą wyzysku seksualnego, fantazjowania o gwałcie , i stąd zniknięcie pornografii jest koniecznym warunkiem wyzwolenia kobiet.

Wraz z MacKinnon opracowała na zlecenie rady miejskiej Minneapolis projekt zmiany miejscowego prawa antypornograficznego. Założeniem tej poprawki było przeświadczenie, że pornografia może być odbierana jako pogwałcenie praw cywilnych kobiet. Rada miejska uchwaliła przyjęcie poprawki, ale zawetował ją burmistrz miasta jako niewystarczająco precyzyjnie sformułowaną. Inne wersje prawa Dworkin i MacKinnon zostały przyjęte przez miasta Indianapolis oraz Bellingham, ale w obu przypadkach sądy uchyliły je jako niekonstytucyjne.

Dokonała gruntownej analizy stosunków między płciami, m.in w książkach "Intercourse", "Letters form a war zone" czy "Our blood" ukazując przemilczane pokłady przemocy seksualnej, która według Dworkin jest najistotniejszym motorem napędowym męskiej supremacji.

Identyfikowała się jako lesbijka, pozostając od 1974 w związku z feministycznym aktywistą Johnem Stoltenbergiem, określającym się jako gej, którego poślubiła w 1998.

Wybrane publikacje książkowe Andrei Dworkin :



"Right-wing women"

"Women hating"

"Pornography. Men possessing women"

"Intercourse"

"Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation" Wikipedia  

✵ 26. Wrzesień 1946 – 9. Kwiecień 2005
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Andrea Dworkin cytaty

„Przestrzeń pornografii, która używa żyjących, prawdziwych kobiet, jest przestrzenią burdeli, obozów koncentracyjnych dla kobiet, seksualnych ubojni. Teraz pytam was: co zamierzacie zrobić?”

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The spread of pornography that uses live women, real women, is the spread of the whorehouse, the concentration camp for women, the house of sexual slaughter. Now I ask you: what are we going to do? (ang.)
Źródło: Letters from a war zone http://books.google.pl/books?ei=fcy8TMbdB8OUswb70sS5DQ&ct=result&id=FlIgAQAAIAAJ&dq=The+spread+of+pornography+that+uses+live+women%2C+real+women%2C+is+the+spread+of+the+whorehouse%2C+the+concentration+camp+for+women%2C+the+house+of+sexual+slaughter.+Now+I+ask+you%3A+what+are+we+going+to+do%3F++Dworkin&q=The+spread+of+pornography+that+uses+live+women%2C+real+women%2C+is+the+spread+of+the+whorehouse%2C+the+concentration+camp+for+women%2C+the+house+of+sexual+slaughter.+Now+I+ask+you%3A+what+are+we+going+to+do%3F, Lawrence Hill Books, 1993, s. 234.

O kobietach

„Ona jeszcze odkryje, że jest kobietą (zgodnie z feministycznym znaczeniem tego słowa), gdy jej koledzy – mężczyźni uniemożliwią jej ucieczkę z getta spraw kobiet i nie pozwolą jej wejść do wielkiej polityki.”

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przewidując brak nominacji dla Phyllis Schlafly do administracji Ronalda Reagana, pomimo jej kompetencji i zasług dla Partii Republikańskiej
Źródło: Right-Wing Women, Perigee Books, Nowy Jork 1983, s. 30.

O kobietach , O mężczyznach

Andrea Dworkin: Cytaty po angielsku

“Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.”

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Right Wing Women, ch.2 (1978)

“(On prostitution:) Incest is boot camp. Incest is where you send the girl to learn how to do it. So you don't, obviously, have to send her anywhere, she's already there and she's got nowhere else to go. She's trained. And the training is specific and it is important: not to have any real boundaries to her own body; to know that she's valued only for sex; to learn about men what the offender, the sex offender, is teaching her.”

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"Prostitution and Male Supremacy" http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/MichLawJourI.html (1993), Michigan Journal of Gender and Law 1(1):1–12. Reprinted in Life and Death (1997), p 139–51.
Often paraphrased as "Incest is boot camp for prostitution".

“Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance.”

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Pornography, Men Possessing Women (1979)

“Women do not know how to be women exactly; men constantly fail to be men.”

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Andrea Dworkin książka Intercourse

Źródło: Intercourse (1987), Chapter 8, "Law"

“No one deserves brutality because of what they are, their condition of birth, including being born female; and the women in this book are not asking for it— instead they are risking as much as any man risks to live, to love.”

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Źródło: Intercourse (1987), Chapter 4

“The pornographers actually use our bodies as their language. We are their speech.... Protecting what they 'say' means protecting what they do to us, how they do it. It means protecting their sadism on our bodies, because that is how they write: not like a writer at all; like a torturer.”

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Women Transforming Communications.

“[[I]t's] one thing to talk about the redistribution of wealth. It's quite another thing to talk about the redistribution of power. That's more what interests me.”

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Norah Vincent, Sex, Love and Politics, id., p. 41, col. 1.

“While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.”

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Right Wing Women, ch.2 (1978)

“Can women make use of men's vulnerability not to marry but instead to destroy male power?”

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Andrea Dworkin książka Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation

Źródło: Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation (2000), p. 248.

“The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it.”

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Our Blood (1973) p.16.

“Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more— also because the status quo depends on it; but love depends on self-knowledge and self-knowledge depends on being able to bear the truth.”

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Andrea Dworkin książka Intercourse

Źródło: Intercourse (1987), Chapter 4

“I’m sorry Andrea Dworkin started a sexual revolution that she ended up repudiating. She never got to see people like me, Carol, and the rest of us little protégées who took her inspiration and flew to a new dimension. She got stuck, and then she got sick, and when you’re famous for one thing, no one wants to see you change unless you reject it all, like a pathetic sinner seeking redemption. She was too stubborn and too old-fashioned for that. Andrea Dworkin never would have admitted that she was a SuperStar. She was the animator of the ultimate porno horror loop, where the Final Girl never gets a chance to slay the monster, she only dies, dies, dies, with the cries of the angry mourners to remember her.”

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" Andrea Dworkin Has Died http://susiebright.blogs.com/susie_brights_journal_/2005/04/andrea_dworkin_.html" by Susie Bright, Susie Bright's Journal (blog), April 11, 2005.
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“To become the object, she takes herself and transforms herself into a thing: all freedoms are diminished and she is caged, even in the cage docile, sometimes physically maimed, movement is limited: she physically becomes the thing he wants to fuck.”

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Andrea Dworkin książka Intercourse

Źródło: Intercourse (1987), Chapter 7

“Can intercourse exist without the woman herself turning herself into a thing, which she must do because men cannot fuck equals and men must fuck: because one price of dominance is that one impotent in the face of equality?”

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Źródło: Intercourse (1987), Chapter 7

“Being female in this world is having been robbed of he potential for human choice by men who love to hate s. One does not make choices in freedom. Instead, one conforms in body type and behavior and values to become an object of male sexual desire, which requires an abandonment of a wide-ranging capacity for choice Objectification may well be the most singly destructive aspect of gender hierarchy, specially as it exists in relation to intercourse.”

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Źródło: Intercourse (1987), Chapter 7

“A woman has a body that is penetrated in intercourse: permeable, its corporeal solidness a lie. The discourse of male truth—literature, science, philosophy, pornography—calls that penetration violation.”

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Andrea Dworkin książka Intercourse

This it does with some consistency and some confidence. Violation is a synonym for intercourse. At the same time, the penetration is taken to be a use, not an abuse; a normal use; it is appropriate to enter her, to push into ("violate") the boundaries of her body. She is human, of course, but by a standard that does not include physical privacy.
Źródło: Intercourse (1987), Chapter 7

“Intercourse is commonly written about and comprehended as a form of possession or an act of possession in which, during which, because of which, a man inhabits a woman, physically covering her and overwhelming her and at the same time penetrating her; and this physical relational - over her and inside her 0 is his possession oh her. He has her, or when is is done, he has had her. By thrusting into her, he takes her over. His thrusting into her is taken to be her capitulation to him as a conqueror; it is a physical surrender of herself to him; he occupies and rules her, expresses his elemental dominance over her, by his possession of her in the fuck.”

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Źródło: Intercourse (1987), Chapter Five, "Possession"

“In Amerika, there is the nearly - or so it appears - that sex (fucking) is good and that liking it is right: morally right; a sign of human health; nearly a standard for citizenship. Even those who believe in original sin and have a theology of hellfire and damnation express the Amerikan creed, an optimism that glows in the dark: sex is good, healthy, wholesome, pleasant fun; we like it, we enjoy iy, we want it, we are cheerful abut it; it is as simple as we are, the citizens of this strange country with no memory and no mind.”

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Źródło: Intercourse (1987), Chapter 4

“Anti-feminism is also operating whenever any political group is ready to sacrifice one group of women, one faction, some women, some kinds of women, to any element of sex-class oppression: to pornography, to rape, to battery, to economic exploitation, to reproductive exploitation, to prostitution. There are women all along the male-defined political spectrum, including both extreme ends of it, ready to sacrifice some women, usually not themselves, to the brothels or the farms. The sacrifice is profoundly anti-feminist; it is also profoundly immoral…”

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"Anti-feminism," Right Wing Women (1983), pp. 230-231.

“The pride comes from accomplishment. I have done what I wanted to do more than any other thing in life. I have become a writer, published two books of integrity and worth. I did not know what those two books would cost me, how very difficult it would be to write them, to survive the opposition to them.”

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"A Battered Wife Survives", (1978)
Letters from a War Zone: Writings 1976-1987

“Men renounce whatever they have in common with women so as to experience no commonality with women; and whatis left according to men, is one piece of flesh a few inches long, the penis.”

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Pornography, Men Possessing Women (1979)

“Money speaks, but it speaks in a male voice. In the hands of women, money stays literal; count it out it buys what it is worth or less. In the hands of men, money buys women, sex, status, dignity, esteem, recognition, loyalty, all manner of possibility.”

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Źródło: Pornography, Men Possessing Women (1979), p. 20.

“When a word is used to provoke hatred, it does not matter what the word actually means. What matters is only what the haters insist it means - the meaning they give it, the common prejudices they exploit.”

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"The Power of Words" (1978)

“Life can be better for women—economic and political conditions improved—and at the same time the status of women can remain resistant, in deed impervious, to change: so far in history this is precisely the paradigm for social change as it relates to the conditions of women. Reforms are made, important ones' but the status of women relative to men does not change. Women are still less significant, have less privacy, less integrity, less self-determination. This means that women have less freedom.”

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Andrea Dworkin książka Intercourse

Źródło: Intercourse (1987), Chapter 7