Ultimately, I am glad how reading this furthered my feminist self-education. I thought the chapter on the Marquis de Sade and her criticism of left-wing men especially intriguing as these escape how Dworkin could be summarized in a nutshell. Dworkin presents a major classic of feminist thought, finally in print again, at a time when links between pornography and violence against women are once. Andrea Dworkin Pornography: Men Possessing Women Kindle Edition by Andrea Dworkin (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 101 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 0.00 Read with Kindle Unlimited to also enjoy access to over 3 million more titles 2.99 to buy Hardcover 398.77 1 Used from 398. Her analysis is very literal, taking images on at face value, against which third-wave feminists try to inject more subtlety and complexity. Pornography is pornographic, as Dworkin graphically describes specific examples of pornography before dissecting what is wrong with it. However, reading Dworkin drives one into an us-against-them mentality which I don't find constructive or reflective of my daily life. She's passionate, angry, and articulate against what she sees as the essence of patriarchal society and how it harms women in fundamentally entrenched ways. Published in 1981, Andrea Dworkin’s Pornography: Men Possessing Women appeared to have changed the intellectual landscape as well as changing many people’s lives. Nonetheless, I was glad I read this treatise against pornography by one of the major thinkers of second-wave feminism. Its large-print title attracted unwanted attention on a Greyhound bus trip, and it made me slightly and entirely unjustifiably apprehensive of the friend I was on said bus trip to visit, simply because he happened to be male. Pornography: Men Possessing Women is the third nonfiction book by American radical feminist writer and activist Andrea Dworkin about pornography.

Reading Pornography: Men Possessing Women was tricky.

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