Life and death : [unapologetic writings on the continuing war against women]

Bringing together a collection of her essays, speeches and commentaries from the last decade, on events ranging from Nicole Brown Simpson's murder to the atrocities committed against Bosnian women in Serbian death camps, the author explores connections between pornography, male power and violence A collection of her most incisive essays and unpublished speeches, Life and Death makes it clear why Dworkin has found her place in the canon of modern political thought. She begins here with a poignant autobiographical piece, in which she recounts with rare tenderness her childhood in Camden, New Jersey, her political odyssey, and the crushing pain of her brother's death. Lending her hand to tragic current events, or what she calls "emergencies," like the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson, the Hedda Nussbaum child abuse case, and the mass murder of female students at a college in Montreal, Dworkin makes clear in her inimitable way the obvious things we stubbornly fail to notice. Finally, she guides us back to the core issues at stake in women's lives - pornography, domestic violence, rape, and prostitution - and reminds us that even after decades of feminist so-called progress, gender is an ongoing war. From Simon & Schuster, Life and Death by Andrea Dworkin is the unapologetic writing on the continuing war against women. In this important work, Dworken gathers essays published between 1987 and 1995, in which she comments on society's ongoing and tacit approval of aggression against women that often ends in these women losing their lives. I come from Camden, New Jersey, a cold, hard, corrupt city, and-now having been plundered by politicians, some of whom are in jail-also destitute.