Freak Feminism: On Andrea Dworkin

For much of my feminist life, I knew nothing about Andrea Dworkin except to resent her. Perhaps the face of various ideologies labelled “radical feminism,” Dworkin wrote over a dozen texts about women’s oppression. This year, Picador rereleased three: Woman-Hating (1974), Pornography: Men Possessing Women (1981), and Right-Wing Women (1983). The latter contains an efficacious new forward by Moira Donegan. The new editions come amidst renewed engagement with Dworkin amid the current Trump-era backlash to feminism: positive reappraisal essays, a well-reviewed biographical documentary, and a 2019 edited collection from Riot Grrrl activist Johanna Fateman and feminist filmmaker Amy Scholder