Status
Available
Publication
Plume (1976), 217 pages
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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.
Highly recommended.
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. Show Less
LibraryThing member adaorhell
A lot of this contained in Last Days at Hot Slit, but still a brutal and unflinching looking at women.
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Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1974
Physical description
7 x 5 inches
ISBN
0525474234 / 9780525474234