![]() In 1968 she exiled herself from ‘Amerika’, spending five years in the Netherlands. Like many women of her generation, Dworkin was also radicalised by her experience of misogyny in the New Left. Her description of the instrumental rape she suffered during her arrest made international headlines and helped shut down the facility. Arrested and jailed in the Woman's House of Detention in Greenwich Village, she was subjected to a brutal internal examination. She began life as a political activist in 1965, protesting against the Vietnam War. Dworkin studied literature and philosophy at Bennington College, Vermont. Gloria SteinemOn 9 April 2005 Andrea Dworkin died and with her death was silenced the most strident, angry, polemical, iconoclastic, passionate, compassionate, irrational, rational and radical voice of second-wave feminism.īorn in Camden, New Jersey, it was Dworkin's father, a socialist teacher and postal worker, who inspired her early radicalism. Every century there are a handful of writers who help the human race evolve, Andrea is one of them. ![]()
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