Introduction by Johanna Fateman
1. Andrea Dworkin to Harry and Sylvia Dworkin, 7 April 1969, folder 9.9, Papers of Andrea Dworkin, 1914–2007, MC 540, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University (hereafter cited as Dworkin Papers).
2. Photographs of Andrea Dworkin’s wedding to Cornelius “Iwan” de Bruin, February 1969, PD.23–PD.24, Dworkin Papers.
3. Ellen Willis, “Hearing,” New Yorker, 22 February 1969, 28.
4. Andrea Dworkin to Harry and Sylvia Dworkin, 10 September 1971, folder 9.11, Dworkin Papers.
5. Andrea Dworkin to Harry and Sylvia Dworkin, 3 April 1973, folder 9.13, Dworkin Papers.
6. We have not included excerpts from Dworkin’s the new woman’s broken heart: short stories (1980), Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women’s Liberation (2000), and Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant (2002), nor from two books she coauthored with Catharine MacKinnon, Pornography and Civil Rights: A New Day for Women’s Equality (1988) and In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (1990).
7. Andrea Dworkin, Pornography: Men Possessing Women (New York: Plume, 1989), 69.
8. Passages of this essay are adapted from Johanna Fateman, “Andrea Dworkin,” in Icon, ed. Amy Scholder (New York: Feminist Press, 2014), 33–65.
9. Andrea Dworkin, “My Life as a Writer,” in Life and Death: Unapologetic Writings on the Continuing War against Women. (New York: Free Press, 2002), 20.
10. Ibid., 23.
11. William E. Farrell, “Inquiry Ordered at Women’s Jail,” New York Times, 6 March 1965.
12. Andrea Dworkin, Notes on Burning Boyfriend (unpublished book manuscript of writings, 1963–68), n.d., folder 64.12, Dworkin Papers.
13. Andrea Dworkin, Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics (New York: Perigee Books, 1987), xi.
14. Photographs of Andrea Dworkin and John Stoltenberg, 1975–81, PD.26, Dworkin Papers.
15. Andrea Dworkin to Lily Tomlin, 7 January 1976, folder 11.6, Dworkin Papers.
16. For the most part, we have avoided internally editing our selections. In some cases, notably in “The Rape Atrocity and the Boy Next Door,” we have omitted lengthy citations of now-outdated research and passages that echo ideas expressed at more length elsewhere in the collection. Bracketed ellipses denote where we have condensed the text in this way. In some cases, our excerpts do not start at the beginning of the original text, beginning after section breaks or omitting epigraphs.
17. Dworkin, Our Blood, xvii.
18. Andrea Dworkin, “Pornography: The New Terrorism,” in Letters from a War Zone (New York: Lawrence Hill Books, 1988), 201.
19. For a comprehensive history of the groups Women Against Violence Against Women and Women Against Pornography, see Carolyn Bronstein, Battling Pornography: The American Feminist Anti-Pornography Movement; 1976–1986 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).
20. Andrea Dworkin, “Pornography and Grief,” in Letters from a War Zone, 19.
21. Ellen Willis, “Nature’s Revenge,” New York Times, 12 July 1981.
22. Dorchen Leidholdt, “Invidious Comparison,” New York Times, 23 August 1981.
23. Andrea Dworkin, Ruins (unpublished manuscript), 1978–83, folders 75.5–75.7, Dworkin Papers.
24. Andrea Dworkin, “Reviewing Andrea Dworkin,” New York Times, 24 May 1987.
25. Carol Sternhell, “Male and Female, Men and Women,” New York Times, 3 May 1987.
26. John Stoltenberg, “Living with Andrea Dworkin,” Lambda Book Report, May–June 1994.
27. Dworkin, “My Life as a Writer,” 13.
28. Wendy Steiner, “Declaring War on Men,” New York Times, 15 September 1991.
29. Dworkin, “My Life as a Writer,” 13.
30. Huey P. Newton, Revolutionary Suicide (New York: Penguin Books, 2009), 3.
31. At John Stoltenberg’s request on behalf of The Estate of Andrea Dworkin, the director and dramaturg Adam Thorburn edited My Suicide for the stage, shortening it to a 90-minute theater piece titled Aftermath. The piece was first presented as a staged reading May 1–3 and May 8–10, 2014, in The Willa Cather Room at The Jefferson Market Library in New York City.
32. John Stoltenberg, “Andrea Dworkin’s Last Rape,” Feminist Times, 14 July 2014, http://archive.feministtimes.com/andrea-dworkins-last-rape.
33. Andrea Dworkin, “Andrea Dworkin: The Day I Was Drugged and Raped,” New Statesman, 5 June 2000, https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2013/03/day-iwas-drugged-and-raped.
WOMAN HATING
Woman as Victim: Story of O
1. Newsweek, 21 March 1966, 108.
2. Pauline Reage, Story of O (New York: Grove, 1965), xxi.
3. Ibid., 80.
4. Ibid., 93.
5. Ibid., 187.
6. Ibid., 32.
7. Ibid., 106.
8. Robert S. de Ropp, Sex Energy: The Sexual Force in Man and Animals (New York: Dell, 1969), 134.
OUR BLOOD
Renouncing Sexual “Equality”
1. Kate Millett, Sexual Politics (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970).
2. Sophie Tolstoy, diary entry, 12 September 1865, in Revelations: Diaries of Women, ed. Mary Jane Moffat and Charlotte Painter (New York: Random House, 1974), 143–44.
The Rape Atrocity and the Boy Next Door
1. Sigmund Freud, “Femininity,” in Women and Analysis, ed. Jean Strouse (New York: Grossman, 1974), 90.
2. The Jerusalem Bible (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1966), 243–44.
3. Ibid., 245.
4. Cited by Carol V. Horos, Rape (New Canaan, CT: Tobey, 1974), 3.
5. Cited by Andra Medea and Kathleen Thompson, Against Rape (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1974), 27.
6. Horos, Rape, 6.
7. William Matthews, The Ill-Framed Knight: A Skeptical Inquiry into the Identity of Sir Thomas Malory (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966), 17.
8. Medea and Thompson, Against Rape, 13.
9. “Forcible and Statutory Rape: An Exploration of the Operation and Objectives of the Consent Standard,” Yale Law Journal 62 (December 1952): 52–83.
10. Ibid., 72–73.
11. Medea and Thompson, Against Rape, 26.
12. Mary Daly, Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women’s Liberation (Boston: Beacon, 1973), 8, 9, 33, 37, 47–49, 100, 106, and 167.
13. New York Radical Feminists, Rape: The First Sourcebook for Women, ed. Noreen Connell and Cassandra Wilson (New York: New American Library, 1974), 165.
14. Ibid.
15. Medea and Thompson, Against Rape, 16.
16. The Institute for Sex Research, Sex Offenders (New York: Harper & Row, 1965), 205.
17. Sgt. Henry T. O’Reilly, New York City Police Department Sex Crimes Analysis Unit, cited in Joyce Wadler, “Cop, Students Talk About Rape,” New York Post, 10 May 1975, 7.
18. Horos, Rape, 13.
19. Menachim Amir, Patterns of Forcible Rape (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971), p. 200.
20. Medea and Thompson, Against Rape, 34–35.
21. Robert Sam Anson, “That Championship Season,” New Times, 20 September 1974, 46–51.
22. Ibid., 48.
23. Angelina Grimke, speaking before the Massachusetts State Legislature, 1838, cited in Gerda Lerner, The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Woman’s Rights and Abolition (New York: Schocken Books, 1971), 8.
24. Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice (New York: Dell, 1968), 26.
25. New York Radical Feminists, Rape, 164–69.
26. George Gilder, Sexual Suicide (New York: Quadrangle, 1973), 18.
27. Ida Husted Harper, The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony: Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many from Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years (Indianapolis and Kansas City: Bowen-Merrill, 1898), 1:366.
PORNOGRAPHY
Introduction
1. Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel, Himmler (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1965), 105.
2. Terrence Des Pres, The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980), 61.
3. George Steiner, Language and Silence (New York: Atheneum, 1877), 65–66.
Power
1. Arthur Rimbaud, “A Season in Hell,” in A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat, trans. Louise Varese (Norfolk, CT: New Directions Books, 1961), 3.
Pornography
1. Kate Millett, Tbe Prostitution Papers (New York: Avon Books, 1973), 95.
Whores
1. H. L. Mencken, In Defense of Women (Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing, 1922), 187.
2. William Acton, Prostitution (New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1969), 118.
3. Jane Addams, A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil (New York: Macmillan, 1914), 40.
4. Sigmund Freud and C. G. Jung, The Freud/Jung Letters: Tbe Correspondence Between Sigmund Freud and C. G. Jung, ed. William McGuire, trans. Ralph Manheim and R. F. C. Hull (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1974), 503.
5. Rene Guyon, Sexual Freedom, trans. Eden and Cedar Paul (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958), 239.
6. Guyon, Sexual Freedom, 198.
7. Ibid., 200.
8. Ibid., 204.
9. John Wolfenden, Report of the Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1957), 80.
10. Alberto Moravia, The Woman of Rome, trans. Lydia Holland (New York: Manor Books, 1974), 88.
11. Otto Weininger, Sex and Character (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1975), 219.
12. D. H. Lawrence, Sex, Literature and Censorship, ed. Harry T. Moore (New York: Twayne, 1953), 69.
13. Ibid., 69.
14. Kate Millett, Sexual Politics (New York: Avon Books, 1971), 119.
15. Max Lerner, “Playboy: An American Revolution of Morality,” New York Post, 10 January 1979.
RIGHT WING WOMEN
The Promise of the Ultra-Right
1. Cited by Norman Mailer, Marilyn: A Biography (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1973), 17.
2. Terrence Des Pres, The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980), vi.
3. Leah Fritz, Thinking Like a Woman (Rifton, NY: Win Books, 1975), 130.
4. Anita Bryant, Bless This House (New York: Bantam Books, 1976), 26.
5. Marabel Morgan, The Total Woman (New York: Pocket Books, 1975), 57.
6. Ruth Carter Stapleton, The Gift of Inner Healing (Waco, TX: Word Books, 1976), 32.
7. Ibid., 18.
8. Morgan, Total Woman, 8.
9. Ibid., 96.
10. Ibid., 60.
11. Ibid., 161.
12. Ibid., 140-41.
13. Anita Bryant, Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory (Old Tappan, NJ: Fleming H. Revell, 1970), 26–27.
14. Ibid., 84.
15. Bryant, Bless This House, 42.
16. Bryant, Mine Eyes, 83.
17. Bryant, Bless This House, 51–52 .
18. “Battle Over Gay Rights,” Newsweek, 6 June 1977, 20.
19. Phyllis Schlafly, The Power of the Positive Woman (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1977), 89.
INTERCOURSE
Occupation/Collaboration
1. Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude, trans. Lysander Kemp (New York: Grove, 1961), 22.
2. Shere Hite, The Hite Report (New York: Macmillan, 1976), 196.
3. Anaïs Nin, In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976), 8.
4. Ellen Key, Love and Marriage, trans. Arthur G. Chater (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1911), 82.
5. Hite, Hite Report, 141.
6. Franz Kafka, Diaries 1910–1913, ed. Max Brod, trans. Joseph Kresh (New York: Schocken Books, 1965), 296.
7. State v. Hunt, 220 Neb. 707, 709–10 (1985).
8. Id. at 725.
9. Iris Murdoch, Henry and Cato (New York: Viking, 1977), 262.
10. Paz, Labyrinth, 13.
11. Don DeLillo, White Noise (New York: Viking, 1985), 29.
12. Norman O. Brown, Love’s Body (New York: Random House, 1966), 133.
13. Sigmund Freud and C. G. Jung, The Freud/Jung Letters: The Correspondence Between Sigmund Freud and C. G. Jung, ed. William McGuire, trans. Ralph Manheim and R. F. C. Hull (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1974), 265.
14. Marguerite Duras, The Lover, trans. Barbara Bray (New York: Pantheon Books, 1985), 63.
15. Ibid., 63.
16. Ibid., 62.
17. Victoria Claflin Woodhull, The Victoria Woodhull Reader, ed. Madeleine B. Stern (Weston, MA: M&S, 1974), 40.
18. Wilhelm Reich, The Sexual Revolution, trans. Theodore P. Wolfe, rev. ed. (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970), 15.