Andrea Dworkin

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Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams in "Dick," 1999
November 10, 2020

1999 Watergate Comedy, "Dick," Teaches Us to Take Teen Girls Seriously

Eliza Bayroff

What can we learn from this 1999 coming-of-age comedy in 2020?

Topics: Film, Politics and Government
https://jwa.org/blog/1999-watergate-comedy-dick-teaches-us-take-teen-girls-seriously
Fifty Shades of Grey Books
November 18, 2015

Anti-Pornography Values Are Patriarchal

Elisabeth Eigerman

Andrea Dworkin was one of the greatest feminist minds of the 20th century, and a huge influence on second wave feminism, the dominant feminist ideology of the 1960s and 70s.  Second wave feminism held that sex work and sexual entertainment were harmful and degrading to women, and should be abolished. 

Topics: Feminism, Women's Rights, Non-Fiction
https://jwa.org/blog/risingvoices/anti-pornography-values-are-patriarchal
Andrea Dworkin, 1988

Death of Anti-Violence Activist Andrea Dworkin

April 9, 2005

Andrea Dworkin: “I'm a radical feminist, not the fun kind.”

https://jwa.org/thisweek/apr/09/2005/this-week-in-history-death-of-anti-violence-activist-andrea-dworkin
Jackie Cochran, 1961
March 10, 2014

From School House Rock to Seneca Falls

George Kelley

 

My first Women's History Month Event took place in the spring of 1985. I was a college student in Syracuse, New York and yet I was unaware of the importance of Seneca Falls, just down the highway. Lucretia Mott was the name of a woman I heard on School House Rock.

Topics: Women's Rights, Jewish History
https://jwa.org/blog/from-school-house-rock-to-seneca-falls
Gerda Lerner

Women's Studies in the United States

Jewish women were instrumental in creating women’s studies as an academic discipline and contributed significantly to its growth and evolution. They have been critical not only as political activists, administrators, and editors of the key women’s studies journals, but also as prominent thinkers in the field’s intellectual debates.

Literature Scholars in the United States

Jewish women have been among the key figures in literary scholarship in the United States in the postwar period. Those entering the profession in the 1950s faced more difficulties as women than they did as Jews. Today, Jewish women are found in all corners of the profession, from feminist and queer theory to administration, critical race studies, and beyond.

Lillian Wald

Feminism in the United States

Jewish women participated in and propelled all aspects of the women's rights movement, from suffrage in the nineteenth century to women's liberation in the twentieth. Despite occasional instances of antisemitism in the general feminist movement, Jewish women were passionate advocates of feminist goals.
Andrea Dworkin, 1988

Andrea Dworkin

A lightning rod for controversy, American feminist Andrea Dworkin denounced violence against women, advocated women’s self-defense, and drafted groundbreaking legislation claiming that pornography violated women’s civil rights. In 1974, Dworkin and Ricki Abrams co-wrote Woman Hating in which they charged that pornography incited violence towards women and that consensual sex subjugated women.

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