Audiotape collection of Andrea Dworkin [sound recording]. 1975-1997 (Inclusive)

Dworkin, Andrea, 1946-2005

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Author, critic, and radical feminist Andrea Dworkin was born on September 26, 1946, in Camden, New Jersey. She was the daughter of Sylvia (Spiegel), a secretary, and Harry Dworkin, a guidance counselor. In 1965, while attending Bennington College, Dworkin was arrested in New York City for protesting against the Vietnam War, and spent four days in the Women’s House of Detention. She later made headlines, publicizing her brutal treatment at the hands of staff, which led to a grand ju...

Rush, Florence, 1918-

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Rush worked in a machine shop during World War II. She and her family later lived in Westchester County, N.Y.; she researched and wrote about child abuse. From the description of Papers, 1971-1974 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007874 Feminist and social worker Florence Rush (1918-2008) created a sensation in her talk, "The Sexual Abuse of Children: A Feminist Point of View," presented at the April 1971 conference of New York Radical F...

MacKinnon, Catharine A.

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Feminist lawyer and professor, Catharine Alice MacKinnon was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1946. She attended Smith College (B.A. 1969), Yale Law School (J.D. 1977), and Yale University (Ph. D. 1987). While in graduate school she organized a course to be taught in the women's studies program, and began to make the argument that sexual harassment in the workplace is also sex discrimination and therefore a violation of federal law. This grew into her first book, Sexual Harassment...

Hite, Shere.

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Cultural historian, researcher in sexuality, and feminist, Shere Hite was born in 1942 in Saint Joseph, Missouri, and attended the University of Florida, Gainesville (B.A. 1960, M.A. 1967). From 1972 to 1978, she directed the feminist sexuality project of the National Organization for Women and in 1976 published The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study on Female Sexuality, which was based upon anonymous responses to questionnaires in which women detailed their sexual experiences. This was followed by...

Stratten, Dorothy, 1960-1980

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United States. Attorney General's Commission on Pornography

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