Pornography
Men Possessing Women
$19.91
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
27 May 2025
Summary
A landmark, searing critique of pornography that condemns how culture consumes and manipulates images of women and eroticises male dominance.
“Pornography is the orchestrated destruction of women’s bodies and souls … it is war on women.”
Pornography, Andrea Dworkin argued in this landmark work, is about power—the power of owning, of money, of sex. It is not merely violence against women, but the essential DNA of male dominance. As images of women’s bodies continue to be manipu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241735947 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241735947 |
| Author: | Andrea Dworkin |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 27 May 2025 |
| Weight: | 250g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 19mm |
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Unnervingly prescient… If her first book, Woman Hating, and the later Pornography: Men Possessing Women, speak to a culture that has only grown the more violently misogynistic since they were published – their arguments have new urgency in a world of “incels” and 24⁄7 porn * Guardian *Bold, courageous and erudite… It is in Pornography that Dworkin’s exploration of male power is most fully formed and convincing * Prospect *She is a genius: her words leap from the page into 2025 and demand we expect more… Andrea Dworkin, this flawed, abhorred, ruthless woman bellows down the decades to shock us out of our stupor; you’d be a fool not to listen * UnHerd *
About The Author
Andrea Dworkin
Andrea Dworkin (1946-2005) was an American radical feminist activist and writer, and leading thinker in the second wave feminist movement. She is the author of 12 books, including Pornography, Right-Wing Women, Woman Hating, Intercourse, and more.
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