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Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist and writer best known for her criticism of pornography, which she argued was linked to rape and other forms of violence against women. An anti-war activist and anarchist in the late 1960s, Dworkin wrote 10 books on radical feminist theory and practice. During the late 1970s and the 1980s, she gained national fame as a spokeswoman for the feminist anti-pornography movement, and for her writing on pornography and sexuality, particularly in ''Pornography: Men Possessing Women'' (1981) and ''Intercourse'' (1987), which remain her two most widely known books. == Early life == Dworkin was born in Camden, New Jersey, to Harry Dworkin and Sylvia Spiegel. Her father was the grandson of a Russian Jew who fled Russia when he was 15 years old in order to escape military service and her mother was the child of Jewish emigrants from Hungary. She had one younger brother, Mark. Her father was a schoolteacher and dedicated socialist, whom she credited with inspiring her passion for social justice. Her relationship with her mother was strained, but Dworkin later wrote about how her mother's belief in legal birth control and legal abortion, "long before these were respectable beliefs", inspired her later activism.〔Dworkin, ''Heartbreak'', p. 23.〕 Though she described her Jewish household as being in many ways dominated by the memory of the Holocaust, it nonetheless provided a happy childhood until she reached the age of nine, when an unknown man molested her in a movie theater. When Dworkin was 10, her family moved from the city to the suburbs of Cherry Hill, New Jersey (then known as Delaware Township), which she later wrote she "experienced as being kidnapped by aliens and taken to a penal colony".〔Dworkin, ''Life and Death'', p. 3.〕 In sixth grade, the administration at her new school punished her for refusing to sing "Silent Night" (as a Jew, she objected to being forced to sing Christian religious songs at school).〔Dworkin, ''Heartbreak'', pp. 21–22.〕 She said she "probably would have become a rabbi" if women could have while she was in high school and she "would have liked" being a Talmudic scholar.〔Vincent, Norah, ''Sex, Love and Politics: Andrea Dworkin'', in ''New York Press'', vol. 11, no. 5, Feb. 4–10, 1998, p. 42, col. 1 (main title and subtitle may have been in either order, per ''id.'', p. ()).〕 Dworkin began writing poetry and fiction in the sixth grade.〔Dworkin, ''Life and Death'', pp. 23–24, 28; Dworkin, ''Heartbreak'', pp. 37–40.〕 Around that time, she was undecided about whether to become a lawyer or a writer, because of her interest then in abortion, and chose writing because she could "do it in a room alone" and "nobody could stop me".〔Both quotations: Vincent, Norah, ''Sex, Love and Politics'', ''op. cit.'', p. 42, col. 4.〕 Throughout high school, she read avidly, with encouragement from her parents. She was particularly influenced by Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, Henry Miller, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Che Guevara, and the Beat poets, especially Allen Ginsberg,〔 and has included among writers she "admired most" Genet, Shelley, and Byron.〔Vincent, Norah, ''Sex, Love and Politics'', ''op. cit.'', p. 42, col. 4 (quoting interviewer Vincent).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Andrea Dworkin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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