Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)

**Selections from the work of radical feminist author Andrea Dworkin, famous for her antipornography stance and role in the feminist sex wars of the 1980s.** Radical feminist author Andrea Dworkin was a caricature of misandrist extremism in the popular imagination and a polarizing figure within the women's movement, infamous for her antipornography stance and her role in the feminist sex wars of the 1980s. She still looms large in feminist demands for sexual freedom, evoked as a censorial demagogue, more than a decade after her death. Among the very first writers to use her own experiences of rape and battery in a revolutionary analysis of male supremacy, Dworkin was a philosopher outside and against the academy who wrote with a singular, apocalyptic urgency. __Last Days at Hot Slit__ brings together selections from Dworkin's work, both fiction and nonfiction, with the aim of putting the contentious positions she's best known for in dialogue with her literary oeuvre. The collection charts her path from the militant primer __Woman Hating__ (1974), to the formally complex polemics of __Pornography__ (1979) and __Intercourse__ (1987) and the raw experimentalism of her final novel __Mercy__ (1990). It also includes Goodbye to All This (1983), a scathing chapter from an unpublished manuscript that calls out her feminist adversaries, and My Suicide (1999), a despairing long-form essay found on her hard drive after her death in 2005. \*\* Radical Feminist Author Andrea Dworkin Was A Caricature Of The Manhater In The Popular Imagination As Well As A Polarizing Figure Within The Women's Movement, Infamous For Her Antipornography Stance In The 1970s And 1980s. Now, More Than A Decade After Her Death, This Timely Collection Of Her Writing Showcases The Prescience Of Her Analyses: Of The Genocidal Character Of Sexual Violence; Of The Devastating Nihilism Of White Male Supremacy, And Of The Toll It Takes--especially On Those Who Resist. This Rediscovery Of Dworkin's Work Will Serve As A Flashpoint For Crucial Feminist Conversations Today. Why Is The Cost Of Speaking Out Against Abuse And Inequality Still So High? Why Is The Problematic Work Of Brilliant Women Forced Into Oblivion, When That Of Flawed Great Men Is Embraced? What Can We Learn From The Bitter Divisions And Discarded Ideas Of Previous Generations?--page 4 Of Cover. Introduction / By Johanna Fateman -- Postcard To Mom And Dad, 1973 -- Woman Hating, 1974: The Herstory ; Androgyny ; Woman As Victim : Story Of O ; Afterword: The Great Punctuation Typography Struggle -- Our Blood, 1976: Renouncing Sexual Equality, 1974 ; The Rape Atrocity And The Boy Next Door, 1975 -- Letter To Mom And Dad, 1978 -- Letters From A War Zone, 1988: A Battered Wife Survives, 1978 -- Pornography : Men Possessing Women, 1979-1989: Power ; Men And Boys ; Pornography ; Whores -- Right-wing Women, 1983: The Promise Of The Ultra-right -- Letters From A War Zone, 1988: I Want A Twenty-four-hour Truce During Which There Is No Rape -- Ruins, 1978-1983: Goodbye To All This, 1983 -- Ice And Fire, 1986 -- Intercourse, 1987-1995: Preface To Second Edition ; Occupation/collaboration -- Mercy, 1990: Chapter 6: In June 1967 (age 20) -- Life And Death, 1997: My Life As A Writer, 1995 ; In Memory Of Nicole Brown Simpson, 1994-1995 ; Israel : Whose Country Is It Anyway?, 1990 -- My Suicide, 1999. Edited By Johanna Fateman And Amy Scholder. Series From Publisher's Website. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 395-403). Selections from the work of radical feminist author Andrea Dworkin, famous for her antipornography stance and role in the feminist sex wars of the 1980s. Radical feminist author Andrea Dworkin was a caricature of misandrist extremism in the popular imagination and a polarizing figure within the women's movement, infamous for her antipornography stance and her role in the feminist sex wars of the 1980s. She still looms large in feminist demands for sexual freedom, evoked as a censorial demagogue, more than a decade after her death. Among the very first writers to use her own experiences of rape and battery in a revolutionary analysis of male supremacy, Dworkin was a philosopher outside and against the academy who wrote with a singular, apocalyptic urgency. Last Days at Hot Slit brings together selections from Dworkin's work, both fiction and nonfiction, with the aim of putting the contentious positions she's best known for in dialogue with her literary oeuvre. The collection charts her path from the militant primer Woman Hating (1974), to the formally complex polemics of Pornography (1979) and Intercourse (1987) and the raw experimentalism of her final novel Mercy (1990). It also includes Goodbye to All This (1983), a scathing chapter from an unpublished manuscript that calls out her feminist adversaries, and My Suicide (2005), a despairing long-form essay found on her hard drive after her death.