A highly controversial author and activist, Dworkin is a leading radical feminist and member of the contemporary women's movement. Her provocative investigations into the cultural origins of misogyny and sexual violence have generated...

An anti-war activist and anarchist in the late 1960s, Dworkin became a radical feminist and published ten books on radical feminist theory and practice. During the late 1970s and the 1980s, Dworkin gained national fame as a spokeswoman for the feminist...

ANDREA DWORKIN DIED APRIL 9, 2005, at 58, at home with her husband, John Stoltenberg. Dworkin died in her sleep, after reportedly suffering from several chronic illnesses over the last few years. Brilliant and beleaguered, Dworkin was the embodiment of second-wave feminism....

[PUBLISHED CORRECTION - DATE: Monday, April 25, 2005: Correction: My last column inadvertently dropped the word "potential" from a quotation from Andrea Dworkin: "Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman." ] WRITING...

In the following essay, Jenefsky and Russo examine Dworkin's political methods and rhetorical discourse as an antipornography activist. According to the critics, Dworkin's approach centers upon strategies of "concretization" and "de/centering," by which she draws attention to the real-life implications of pornography while undermining familiar constitutional arguments in its favor.

In the following review, Nussbaum comments on Life and Death and provides sustained analysis of the philosophical, legal, and moral dimensions of Dworkin's case against pornography.

In the following essay, Russo and Torres provide a positive overview of Dworkin's feminist perspective and political activism through analysis of Letters from a War Zone.