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Article: ANDREA DWORKIN by Michael Moorcock
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 25, 1995
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When I read Andrea Dworkin's Our Blood in the early Eighties I
was impressed, but it was her Right-Wing Women which convinced me
that a substantial new voice had joined those of the other
innovative feminists I admired. With its brilliant insights into
the Right's anti-feminism, why women often choose conservative
politics contrary to their specific interests, the book offered an
advance in feminist political thinking almost as radical as Sexual
Politics.
It wasn't only Dworkin's intellectual brilliance, originality of
thought or analytical powers which made her my heroine - it was her
eloquence, the persuasiveness of her language, her willingness to
take all kinds of risks, to ask ...