Andrea Dworkin

Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist and writer. She was best known for her criticism of pornography, which she argued led to rape and other forms of violence against women.

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Dworkin was born in Camden, New Jersey. Her father was a schoolteacher and dedicated socialist whom she credited with inspiring her passion for social justice. Though she described her Jewish household as being in many ways dominated by the memory of the Holocaust, she had a generally happy and normal childhood until the age of 9, when she was molested in a movie theater. In 1965, while a student at Bennington College, she was arrested during an anti-Vietnam War protest at the United States Mission to the United Nations, and sent to the New York Women's House of Detention, where she was subjected to a internal examination by prison doctors that was so rough that she bled for days afterwards. Her testimony of the experience was reported internationally and led to the prison's closure.

September 26: September 26 is the 269th day of the year (270th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 96 days remaining....

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2005: 2005(MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar....

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