Which Andrea Dworkin book should I read first?

[LoZoccolo]

[sharp_stick]

1. I'd go with the one

where she equates men with rapists. Once your finished that you've pretty much exhausted the canon of Dworkin.

[wtmusic]

6. LOL

[Scout]

2. try Letters from a War Zone n/t

[dtexdem]

3. You might do better with the Andrea Doria.

;-)

[saras]

4. Whichever one(s) you're required to read for whatever class you're taking

Unless you plan on writing academically on social theory, feminist or otherwise, there's no reason to read Andrea Dworkin except that you saw some writing of hers that you want to know more about.

Snarky putdowns of Foucault, Althusser, Derrida, and Nietzsche, for example (these days, Nietzsche would be just another Randian freeper on the internet out of his mother's basement) are just as easy as putdowns of Dworkin, and are equally useless at understanding their thought and how it has impacted the world (which is an entirely different issue than whether it is "true", "accurate", "objective", "good", etc.).


Sorry, but if I have to stomach this crap to get my degree, this is my chance to act out and make YOU suffer too.

[H2O Man]

5. the bible

[11 Bravo]

7. The one she hasn't written yet. (Fuck, you've converted me! Posting random bullshit can be a trip!)

[hifiguy]

8. Avoid her books as you would the Fukushima reactor.

I had to plow through one, the name of which I have thankfully forgotten, along with an equally sludgy and horrible book by Catharine MacKinnon in order to refute their "arguments" as research for part of my third-year paper in law school. Both contained some of the worst prose ever typed (one can't call it written, we're talking comparable in horribleness to Ayn Rand's oeuvre here) together with reasoning that rivals Michele Bachmann's most disconnected and incomprehensible word salads. :puke: