Life and Death

Name: Life and Death
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ISBN: 9780743236263

ISBN-10: 0743236262

ISBN-13: 9780743236263

Edition: 2002

Authors: Andrea Dworkin

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A collection of her most incisive essays and unpublished speeches, Life and Death makes it clear why Dworkin has found her place in the canon of modern political thought. She begins here with a poignant autobiographical piece, in which she recounts with rare tenderness her childhood in Camden, New Jersey, her political odyssey, and the crushing pain of her brother's death. Lending her hand to tragic current events, or what she calls "emergencies", like the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson, the Hedda Nussbaum child abuse case, and the mass murder of female students at a college in Montreal, Dworkin makes clear in her inimitable way the obvious things we stubbornly fail to notice. Finally, she…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 1/15/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface


My Life as a Writer


In Memory of Nicole Brown Simpson


Living in Terror, Pain: Being a Battered Wife


The Third Rape


Gary Hart and Post-Pornography Politics


A Government of Men, Not Laws, Not Women


Portrait of a New Puritan - and a New Slaver


Free Expression in Serbian Rape/Death Camps


Beaver Talks


Mass Murder in Montreal: The Sexual Politics of Killing Women


Terror, Torture, and Resistance


Pornography Happens


Prostitution and Male Supremacy


Freedom Now: Ending Violence Against Women


Remember, Resist, Do Not Comply


Race, Sex, and Speech in Amerika


Women in the Public Domain: Sexual Harassment and Date Rape


Israel: Whose Country Is It Anyway?


The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Is Memory Male?


Acknowledgments


Index