SD
wrote this as an issue-based play after learning about a friend's research into women and male violence, reading Andrea Dworkin
, and attending speeches by the group Women Against Violence Against Women
.
Daniels, Sarah. Plays: One. Methuen, 1991.
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4 November 1978: At the first US feminist anti-pornography...
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4 November 1978
At the first US feminist anti-pornography conference, hosted by San Francisco's Galileo High School, Andrea Dworkin
addressed about 3,000 demonstrators on the first Take Back the Night march—which occupied the city's pornography district with...
October 1981: The Women's Press published both Andrea Dworkin's...
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October 1981
The Women's Press published both Andrea Dworkin
's Pornography: Men Possessing Women and Susan Griffin
's Pornography and Silence, both of which received hostile reviews from The Village Voice columnist Ellen Willis
.
Brownmiller, Susan. In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution. Dial, 1999.
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British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1982
1983: In the USA Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea...
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1983
In the USACatharine MacKinnon
and Andrea Dworkin
drafted the Dworkin-MacKinnon ordinance, which sought to employ civil law in the fight against pornography.
Brownmiller, Susan. In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution. Dial, 1999.
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“Feminist author Andrea Dworkin dies”. CBC Arts and Entertainment, 12 Apr. 2005.
