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Right-Wing Women
by Andrea Dworkin
challenging
dark
informative
reflective
medium-paced
This reissue is stellar, and I am very glad for the inclusion of the foreword in it. This book is not perfect feminist theory, as Donegan points out, but it is so important and Dworkin is so intelligent that in every place she falls short, she's still basically already there.
It is an interesting work to visit now. It feels at once incredibly dated and timeless. It feels dated because some of Dworkins language regarding race is now rightfully considered problematic, for example. But her analysis of how race subjugates in society is so brilliant and prescient that the messaging is timeless. This is true across all of the issues she tackles. A lot of this feels especially relevant right now as Amerika moves backwards in terms of equality movements and freedoms. Dworkins analysis of how right-wing women bargain with the world to have a place in a male dominant society is playing out in front of us all in the faces of Karoline Leavitt and all the wives of the big male political figures, for instance. I really was shocked at how much this book still resonates.
I give this a 5 star because, despite its flaws, I generally agree with everything Dworkin says, I find her arguments compelling and I truly feel like this book has changed my life and revolutionized my feminism. There is a definite before and after with this reading experience. And the five stars is also for how much I have thought about this book and been prompted to think by it.
In particular, I have really been struck by Dworkin's points about how much our culture is ordered around sexual force and desire. Since reading, I have started to see it everywhere, even more than I originally thought I would. I always knew this was a problem, but Dworkin brings home how ingrained and pervasive it is.
I forgive it for this flaw, but the book is sometimes quite repetitive. I don't think it detracts from the work, but it should be mentioned since I have otherwise nothing bad to say.
Feminists of the world: Please read this one! Don't let the right-wingers smear campaign against Dworkin convince you not to!
It is an interesting work to visit now. It feels at once incredibly dated and timeless. It feels dated because some of Dworkins language regarding race is now rightfully considered problematic, for example. But her analysis of how race subjugates in society is so brilliant and prescient that the messaging is timeless. This is true across all of the issues she tackles. A lot of this feels especially relevant right now as Amerika moves backwards in terms of equality movements and freedoms. Dworkins analysis of how right-wing women bargain with the world to have a place in a male dominant society is playing out in front of us all in the faces of Karoline Leavitt and all the wives of the big male political figures, for instance. I really was shocked at how much this book still resonates.
I give this a 5 star because, despite its flaws, I generally agree with everything Dworkin says, I find her arguments compelling and I truly feel like this book has changed my life and revolutionized my feminism. There is a definite before and after with this reading experience. And the five stars is also for how much I have thought about this book and been prompted to think by it.
In particular, I have really been struck by Dworkin's points about how much our culture is ordered around sexual force and desire. Since reading, I have started to see it everywhere, even more than I originally thought I would. I always knew this was a problem, but Dworkin brings home how ingrained and pervasive it is.
I forgive it for this flaw, but the book is sometimes quite repetitive. I don't think it detracts from the work, but it should be mentioned since I have otherwise nothing bad to say.
Feminists of the world: Please read this one! Don't let the right-wingers smear campaign against Dworkin convince you not to!