![]() When Larry Flint published cartoons in Hustler magazine depicting Andrea in a sexually explicit way, she sued the publisher, but lost. Al Goldstein, founder of Screw Magazine, said that he would "rather suck dick than have sex with Andrea Dworkin". Shouting about "freedom of speech" and the first amendment. Public hearings on the ordinance were organised across the US, and it was the first time in history that victims of pornography testified directly before a government body. Three years later, Dworkin and MacKinnon were commissioned by the Minneapolis city council to draft a local ordinance that would embody the legal principle that pornography violates the civil rights of women, and is "hate speech". ![]() They discovered that, under current law, there was nothing they could do. In 1980 Andrea asked MacKinnon to help her bring a civil rights suit for Linda Marchiano, who as Linda Lovelace had been coerced into making the film Deep Throat. Heroine or hate figure, her name became an adjective, used and misused to describe the type of feminist we are supposed to strive not to be.Īlthough her previous books, including the notorious Pornography: Men Possessing Women (1981), were widely read in feminist circles, both in the US and Britain, Dworkin achieved fame when, in 1983 along with legal academic Catharine MacKinnon, she drafted and promoted the civil rights law recognising pornography as sex discrimination in Minneapolis. Since the mid-1970s, Dworkin symbolised women's war against sexual violence. ![]()
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