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violento na crueza com que relata a realidade das relações sexuais entre homens e mulheres. mas necessário. gostei sobretudo da desconstrução de livros como os do Marques de sade, ou story of O, classicamente adorados pelos homens intelectuais de esquerda.
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Started off very good but now it's just her breaking down various trashy porn plots and explaining why it's bad
I think she's reductionist to a great degree and a little black and white but I do agree with a lot of the points that others of her time would have never dared to make but unfortunately I don't wanna read the rest of this
I think she's reductionist to a great degree and a little black and white but I do agree with a lot of the points that others of her time would have never dared to make but unfortunately I don't wanna read the rest of this
Brilliant, accurate and a book every woman should read.
compelling to read, also suffocating. the graphic depiction of sex to highlight force and power is such a wonderful illustration of what could possibly happen within the normal context of sex, BUT can be received as misconstrued at the same time. the actual powerplay at work with a normal sexual intercourse is not mentioned by dworkin, failing to grasp what would be the potential pitfalls of entering into a relationship due to social pressure. the lack of counter-arguments weakens the strength of the argument, everything becomes an one-sided depiction of the women as the victim when having to participate in the act of sex. it also neglects the real-life issues of reproduction and the potential pleasure elicited by the act. a dimension that remains uncovered by dworkin. in the chapter of marquis de sade, despite a compelling analysis of his misdeeds, it is more likely a misled representation of the greatest writers' fascination of the man. a perspective that does not consider the artistic merits, but merely simplifying and reducing it onto a plane that only shows the sex at play.
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Personal experience and self-promotion are not substitutes for rigorous scholarship. I would hate to live in any world set up in a way that would align with Dworkin's expressed goals. I first read this in 1982 when I was in undergrad and recently reread most of it to discuss it with my son, now an undergrad who was reading it for a class. I thought it flimsy and absurd then, and that has not changed.