Woman Hating

by Andrea Dworkin

Paperback, 1976

Status

Checked out

Genres

Publication

Plume (1976)

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LibraryThing member ms1991
A collection of short essays analyzing global patriarchal culture (from fairy tales to "witch" burnings to foot binding etc), showing how mysogyny is both implicated in and serves to re-enforce sex segregation and male supremacy.

Highly recommended.
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LibraryThing member csoki637
A lot of really fascinating ideas, commentary, and history. The first three parts of the book — on fairy tales, pornography, and footbinding / witch-burning were both gripping and horrifying. I love how clever and perfect Dworkin's prose is; in hardly any words, she is biting and exact. I was not
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 such a fan of the last part of the book, on androgyny, and the pro-heterosexuality, pro-incest, and pro-zoophilia utopia she describes. Interesting thoughts on punctuation in the angry afterword.
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LibraryThing member adaorhell
A lot of this contained in Last Days at Hot Slit, but still a brutal and unflinching looking at women.

Subjects

Feminism
Sexism United states
Women psychology

Language

English

Original language

English

Original publication date

1974

Physical description

7 inches

ISBN

0525474234 / 9780525474234

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