![]() ![]() ![]() Woman Hating was the perfect book for a young woman to read immediately before setting off into the world from college. Though I had read Millett, Freidan, de Beauvoir, Solanas, Morgan, Brownmiller, and many others during the early seventies, the force of Dworkin's arguments reached me in a way that theirs didn't, perhaps because it was not written in an academic way, nor did it rely upon the reader recognizing herself as a housewife, mother, or middle aged. She tied together history and culture to expose patriarchy as a negative anti-life power dedicated to its own perpetuation. In particular, Dworkin's description of global woman hating cultural practices such as foot binding and witch hunting made a vivid impression upon me. At the age of 22, decades ago, I read this book, and was amazed. ![]()
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