Efforts to change this include fighting against gender stereotypes and improving educational, professional, and interpersonal opportunities and outcomes for women.įeminist movements have campaigned and continue to campaign for women's rights, including the right to vote, run for public office, work, earn equal pay, own property, receive education, enter contracts, have equal rights within marriage, and maternity leave. Feminism holds the position that societies prioritize the male point of view and that women are treated unjustly in these societies. ".Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Every time I cry there's a name attached to each tear. I can't be bought or intimidated because I'm cut down in the middle.
Apartheid in Saudi Arabia still breaks my heart-I don't understand why every story about rising oil prices does not come with an addendum about the domestic imprisonment of women in the Gulf states. I was torn to pieces by segregation and Viet Nam. I was a silly child who believed in the revolution. I thought that if everybody knew, everything would be different. I believed that cruelty was most often caused by ignorance.
From Hearthbreak:"How did I become who I am? I have a heart easily hurt. Beautifully written and surprisingly intimate, Heartbreak is a portrait of a soul, and a mind, in the making. Throughout, she displays a writer's genius for expressing emotional truth and an intellectual's gift for conveying the excitement of ideas and words. By turns wry, spirited, and poignant, Dworkin tells the story of how she evolved from a childhood lover of music and books into a college activist, embraced her role as an international advocate for women, and emerged as a maverick thinker at odds with both the liberal left and the mainstream women's movement. Now, in Heartbreak, Dworkin reveals for the first time the personal side of her lifelong journey as activist and writer. A tireless defender of women's rights, especially the rights of those who have been raped and assaulted, and a relentless critic of pornography, Dworkin is one of feminism's most rigorous minds and fiercest crusaders. Always innovative, often controversial, and frequently polarizing, Andrea Dworkin has carved out a unique position as one of the women's movement's most influential figures, from the early days of consciousness-raising to the "post-feminist" present. A bittersweet memoir of falling in love with books, ideas, and the fight for social justice-from the sixties to the present-by one of the most brilliant feminist thinkers of our time.
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