Intercourse (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
At a glance:
- Author: Andrea Dworkin
- First Published: 1987
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Sexism, Sex or sexuality, Gender roles, Authors or writers, Literature, Violence, Feminism, Oppression, Women, Pornography
The Work
Intercourse, one of Andrea Dworkin’s most powerful books on sexuality in a repressive culture, is about self-disgust and self-hatred. Dworkin’s “Amerika” is the modern world, or rather, the world that lives within the modern American. In “Amerika,” sex is good and liking it is morally right. In “Amerika,” sex is defined solely as vaginal penetration. In “Amerika,” women are happy to be passive and accepting while their men are aggressive and demanding. Intercourse attempts to question the rigid sexual roles that define the male as...
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