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katnissevergreen 's review for:
Woman Hating
by Andrea Dworkin
"one can be excited about ideas without changing at all. one can think about ideas, talk ideas, without changing at all. people are willing to think about many things. what people refuse to do, or are not permitted to do, or resist doing, is to change the way to think...to permit writers to use forms which violate conventions just might permit writers to develop forms which would teach people to think differently..."
The chapters on Chinese Footbinding and the witch hunts are most interesting, though more detailed histories could be found elsewhere. Its interesting as an introduction to certain feminist ideas and Dworkin, but more surface level than her later writing. The chapters on androgyny are genuinely quite odd, particularly the final chapter, given how Dworkin's ideas would develop (I think she later disavowed that chapter). Its certainly interesting to read her express belief in the redemptive power of completely unfettered sexual/erotic freedom given how skeptical she would become of this kind of thought. In terms of personal opinion I'm probably in between this version of Dworkin and later Dworkin.
The chapters on Chinese Footbinding and the witch hunts are most interesting, though more detailed histories could be found elsewhere. Its interesting as an introduction to certain feminist ideas and Dworkin, but more surface level than her later writing. The chapters on androgyny are genuinely quite odd, particularly the final chapter, given how Dworkin's ideas would develop (I think she later disavowed that chapter). Its certainly interesting to read her express belief in the redemptive power of completely unfettered sexual/erotic freedom given how skeptical she would become of this kind of thought. In terms of personal opinion I'm probably in between this version of Dworkin and later Dworkin.