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. Her father was a school teacher and dedicated socialist, whom she credited with inspiring her passion for social justice.
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 immigrants from Hungary. MacKinnonĪndrea Dworkin was born on September 26, 1946, in Camden, New Jersey, to Harry Dworkin and Sylvia Spiegel.
She did this through the prism of men's sexual violence against women in a patriarchal context. The central objective of Dworkin's work is analyzing and theorizing Western society, culture, and politics. Another three volumes were co-written or co-edited with US Constitutional law professor and feminist activist, Catharine A. They are found in a dozen solo works: nine books of non-fiction, two novels, and a collection of short stories. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. Andrea Rita Dworkin (Septem– April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography.