My books came in the mail! Since Dworkin's Intercourse and Dine's Pornland are not found in any stores in my city I was forced to order them online. To my surprise, the books arrived in a few days and now I am the official owner of Intercourse and Pornland. I am still waiting for The Female Eunuch to arrive.
Sadly, despite the advice from my fellow sisters, I ordered the edition of Intercourse that has Ariel Levy doing the foreword. This is probably the one they told me not to get. I would imagine, anyway. It's not that I dislike Levy, I enjoyed Female Chauvinist Pigs, but as for introducing Andrea's book? She's not really the ideal candidate in my humblest of opinions.
Anyway, I will probably be posting about either book, so keep checking back!
Hope everyone has a great new years!
Actually Ariel Levy is kind of badass. She was basically the rising star of mainstream feminism (meaning to continue her career she really had to be a fun fem to fit in with the mainstream media types). Then she writes that amazing book criticizing porn-loving fun fems and exposed herself to so much criticism that it's pretty hard to imagine she'll ever be back in the spotlight the same way. A very cool woman to sacrifice her glamorous career to write a controversial (and much needed) book.
ReplyDeleteP.S. Pornland is spectacular.
I enjoyed most of Female Chauvinist Pigs but it definitely has a very white liberal agenda that does not offer many solutions and she's obviously of high privilege so it's hard to apply her work to women as a class much of the time. But I do think her work is important, however lacking in radical solutions it is.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, so far I am really enjoying Pornland, she writes in a way that just lays everything out without needing to be terribly academic.
I got the Levvy introduction to Intercourse too, but it didn't make me like it any less. I also think that Levvy is very brave, like Elkballet said.
ReplyDeletePornland is brilliant.
Good choices :)
Maybe it was another writer that people were telling me that I shouldn't read? Or wasn't as good.
ReplyDeleteI agree, Levy is brave to take on that, especially since all the western-fun-feminists hate anything that has andrea dworkin's name on it...
Yay acquiring radical feminist texts!
ReplyDeleteIt's funny, just yesterday I was reading a critique of Levy's intro to 'Intercourse'... http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/levy/
Lishra, that may have been where i saw the critique, now that i think of it!
ReplyDeleteNikki Craft was a good friend of Dworkin, she's done some bad ass feminist activism herself. I can understand her dismay at Levy's forward having known Andrea as a person and not as a media cartoon.
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