Andrea Dworkin

<b>From one of America's leading biographers the definitive story of the radical feminist and anti-pornography activist based on exclusive access to her archives</b> <p>Fifteen years after her death Andrea Dworkin remains one of the most important and challenging figures in second-wave feminism. Although frequently relegated to its more radical fringes Dworkin was without doubt a formidable and influential writer a philosopher and an activist-a brilliant figure who inspired and infuriated in equal measure. Her many detractors were eager to reduce her to the caricature of the angry man-hating feminist who believed that all sex was rape and as a result her work has long been misunderstood. It is in recent years especially with the rise of the #MeToo movement that there has been a resurgence of interest in her ideas.</p> <p>This biography is the perfect complement to the widely reviewed anthology of her writing <em>Last Days at Hot Slit</em> published in 2019 providing much-needed context to her work. Given exclusive access to never-before-published photographs and archives including her letters to many of the major figures of second-wave feminism award-winning biographer Martin Duberman traces Dworkin's life from her abusive first marriage through her central role in the sex and pornography wars of the following decades. This is a vital complex and long overdue reassessment of the life and work of one of the towering figures of second-wave feminism.</p>