Intercourse

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Intercourse

Andrea Dworkin

Language: English

Pages: 352

ISBN: 0465017525

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Andrea Dworkin, once called “Feminism’s Malcolm X,” has been worshipped, reviled, criticized, and analyzed-but never ignored. The power of her writing, the passion of her ideals, and the ferocity of her intellect have spurred the arguments and activism of two generations of feminists. Now the book that she’s best known for-in which she provoked the argument that ultimately split apart the feminist movement-is being reissued for the young women and men of the twenty-first century. Intercourse enraged as many readers as it inspired when it was first published in 1987. In it, Dworkin argues that in a male supremacist society, sex between men and women constitutes a central part of women’s subordination to men. (This argument was quickly-and falsely-simplified to “all sex is rape” in the public arena, adding fire to Dworkin’s already radical persona.) In her introduction to this twentieth-anniversary edition of Intercourse, Ariel Levy, the author of Female Chauvinist Pigs, discusses the circumstances of Dworkin’s untimely death in the spring of 2005, and the enormous impact of her life and work. Dworkin’s argument, she points out, is the stickiest question of feminism: Can a woman fight the power when he shares her bed?

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Long before he had touched a woman, this depravity, this exploitation, was rooted in his mind, a form of torment. He was tormented by '''woman, not some particular woman but woman as something to be desired, woman, every woman, woman's nudity ... ",j. This impersonal something was at the heart of his desire: objectlike, not human and individual; not someone in particular but a body, perhaps a symbol, a configuration of flesh; something to have. The first time he had sex was '''something special

lessened by distraction, unreached by normalcy-nearly an amputation, the skin hacked off, slashed open; violent hurt. "My heart was open to you," says a man obsessively in love in The Face ofAnother by Kobo Abe, "quite as if the front of it had been sliced away.''' This skinless sex is a fever, but fever is too small. It is obsession, but obsession is too psychological. It becomes life; and as such, it is a state of being, a metaphysical reality for those in it, for whom no one else exists. It

about the nature of fucking as such. It is strictly about whether or not this good thing is good outside marrijlge or between persons of the same gender (however they manage it). "In other words," writes Marabel Morgan, interpreting Scripture no less, "sex is for the marriage relationship only, but within those bounds, anything goes. Sex is as clean and pure as eating cottage cheese."! Marabel Morgan's The Total Woman (a manual for wives who want to get their husbands to fuck them and maintain a

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us through and through. We hear something, a dim whisper, barely audible, somewhere at the back of the brain; there is some other word, and we think, some of us, sometimes, that once it belonged to us. There are female-supremacist models for intercourse that try to make us the masters of this language that we speak that is not ours. They evade some fundamental questions about the act itself and acknowledge others. They have in common a glorious ambition to see women self-determining, vigorous and

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