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Sunday, April 10, 2005 Another Pioneer Passes: Andrea Dworkin                                                                                                          image courtesy Harvard Gazette Word through the Women and the Media listserv that Andrea Dworkin, an original, died yesterday at age 58. Radical feminist of the 60s and onward, she was best known for her writings on prostitution, pornography and violence against women. She first became a public figure when she was arrested in 1965 during a Vietnam War protest...and then wrote about her brutal treatment in the Women's House of Detention in NYC. With fellow feminist Catherine MacKinnon, she argued that pornography should be criminalized as a civil rights violation against women. She drew a direct causal line from porn to acts of rape, but ran up against constitutional rights to free speech on that front. Don't know what she made of today's popular proliferation of porn on the Internet, music videos and the like. Men and women both have voted with their credit cards, and rape trends in the U.S. have been on a steep decline since the early 90s, following a general reduction in overall crime. But quiet progress on women's role in society requires that someone shout loudly first, and her writings made enough of a noise to wake us up to a feminist consciousness. Here is an article from 2002 that nicely sums up her career as she donated her papers to the Radcliffe Institute. -RH 5:19:23 PM    comment [] © Copyright 2005 Robin Herman. The Girl in the Locker Room™ name and design are trademarks owned by Robin Herman. Last update: 5/31/2005; 11:25:39 AM. Powered by