Perhaps she was so shocked that all men haven't been rounded up and executed
caused her to have a brain haemorrhage!
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1457224,00.html
Feminist icon Andrea Dworkin dies
Simon Jeffery
Monday April 11, 2005
Andrea Dworkin
Andrea Dworkin, 1946-2005
The American feminist icon, writer and campaigner Andrea Dworkin, who
linked pornography to rape and violence, died at the weekend, her
agent said today. She was 58 years old.
Her radical-feminist critique of pornography began with her first
book, Woman Hating, published when she was 27. She campaigned
frequently on the subject, helping to draft a law in 1983 that defined
pornography as a civil rights violation against women.
The law, later overturned by an appeal court as unconstitutional, was
inspired by the case of Linda Marchiano, who as Linda Lovelace said
she had had been violently coerced into pornography, including the
film Deep Throat, but had no recourse to the courts.
The drive of Ms Dworkin's writing and activism was to break the
silence around violence against women, but her wider career saw her
become a figure of adulation and loathing in equal measure. To
opponents she was an archetypal man-hater, killjoy and proponent of
censorship, but supporters rallied to her impassioned lectures and
books. Gloria Steinem, a fellow feminist, said she was one of a
handful of writers each century "who help the human race to evolve".
Ms Dworkin's life as a political activist began early. In 1965, when
she was 18, she was arrested at the US mission to the United Nations,
protesting against the Vietnam war. She was sent to the New York City
Women's House of Detention, where she was given a brutal internal
examination.
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