![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her father, a schoolteacher and a committed socialist, inspired her dedication to justice and equality. Earlier this month, The New Press released Andrea Dworkin: The Feminist as Revolutionary, an intimate and thoroughly researched biography by leading LGBT scholar Martin Duberman.īelow is a brief timeline of the life and work of Andrea Dworkin- not at all comprehensive, given that she was an incredibly prolific writer and speaker.Īndrea is born in Camden, New Jersey, to Harry Dworkin and Sylvia Spiegel, both of whom were of Jewish immigrant backgrounds. Over a decade after her passing in 2005, her work has taken on renewed importance in the wake of #MeToo, raising new questions about how we navigate sex, power, gender, and consent. One of the most controversial and iconoclastic feminists of the twentieth century, Andrea Dworkin was born on this day in 1946. ![]()
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