Dworkin said later, and she was divorced after three years.

She later moved to Europe, where she married a Dutch political radical. 26, 1946, in Camden, N.J., and earned a bachelor's degree in literature from Bennington College in 1968. Marriage, she added, 'is a legal license to rape.'Īndrea Rita Dworkin was born on Sept. Dworkin wrote in 'Letters From a War Zone' (Dutton, 1989). 'One of the differences between marriage and prostitution is that in marriage you only have to make a deal with one man,' Ms. She was also critical of consensual sex between women and men, which she saw as an act of everyday subjugation in which women were accomplices. She opposed all forms of pornography, which she believed incited violence against women. Dworkin drew the lines in what she saw as a pitched battle against men's historical domination of women. With her first book, 'Woman Hating' (Dutton, 1974), Ms. Reviewing 'Heartbreak' in The New York Times Book Review, Laura Miller wrote: 'Dworkin is one of the few remaining specimens of pure countercultural Romanticism: fierce, melodramatic and utterly convinced that all truth can be found in her own roiling, untempered emotions.'

In speeches and in her many books, she returned vocally, passionately and seldom without controversy to the subjects of sex, sexuality and violence against women, themes that to her were inextricably and painfully linked.Īmong her best-known books are 'Pornography: Men Possessing Women' (Putnam/Perigee, 1981), 'Intercourse' (Free Press, 1987) and 'Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant' (Basic Books, 2002). Dworkin was for decades a visible presence on the lecture circuit, at antipornography rallies and 'take back the night' marches. With her unruly dark curls and denim overalls, Ms. Dworkin had suffered from several chronic illnesses in recent years. The cause of death had not been determined last night, but Mr. Dworkin died in her sleep, said her husband, John Stoltenberg. Andrea Dworkin, the feminist writer and antipornography campaigner whose work was a lightning rod for the debate on pornography and censorship that raged through the United States in the 1980's, died on Saturday at her home in Washington.

Pornography by Andrea Dworkin