Letters from a War Zone

by Dworkin, Andrea

• ISBN13: 9780525248248
• ISBN10: 0525248242
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1989-10-01
• Publisher: E P Dutton

Summary

Reflections on writing and writers, freedom of speech and censorship, pornography, violence against women, and the politics of our time.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 3
Take Back the Night
The Lie	p. 9
The Night and Danger	p. 13
Pornography and Grief	p. 19
Words
The Power of Words	p. 27
A Woman Writer and Pornography	p. 31
Susannah Cibber	p. 37
Whose Press? Whose Freedom?	p. 41
Preface to the Paperback Edition of Our Blood	p. 47
Nervous Interview	p. 56
Loving Books: Male/Female/Feminist	p. 62
Mourning Tennessee Williams	p. 65
Wuthering Heights	p. 68
Voyage in the Dark: Hers and Ours	p. 87
Take Back the Day
A Feminist Looks at Saudi Arabia	p. 97
A Battered Wife Survives	p. 100
A True and Commonplace Story	p. 107
Biological Superiority: The World's Most Dangerous and Deadly Idea	p. 110
Sexual Economics: The Terrible Truth	p. 117
Look, Dick, Look. See Jane Blow It	p. 126
Feminism: An Agenda	p. 133
Margaret Papandreou: An American Feminist in Greece	p. 153
I Want A Twenty-Four-Hour Truce During Which There Is No Rape	p. 162
Violence Against Women: It Breaks the Heart, Also the Bones	p. 172
Preface to the British Edition of Right-wing Women	p. 185
The New Terrorism
Pornography: The New Terrorism	p. 197
Why Pornography Matters to Feminists	p. 203
Pornography's Part in Sexual Violence	p. 206
The ACLU: Bait and Switch	p. 210
Why So-Called Radical Men Love and Need Pornography	p. 214
For Men, Freedom of Speech; For Women, Silence Please	p. 222
Pornography and Male Supremacy	p. 226
Women Lawyers and Pornography	p. 235
Silence Means Dissent	p. 247
Against the Male Flood: Censorship, Pornography, and Equality	p. 253
Pornography Is A Civil Rights Issue	p. 276
Letter from a War Zone	p. 308
Epilogue: Feminism Now	p. 325
Afterword: What Battery Really Is	p. 329
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