Pornography, Andrea Dworkin
Pornography, Andrea Dworkin
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Pornography
Men Possessing Women

Author: Andrea Dworkin

Narrator: Erin DeWard

Unabridged: 11 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/01/2026


Synopsis

Andrea Dworkin’s 1981 critique of pornography is an important and urgent document about how the culture consumes and manipulates images of women. Essential and discomfiting reading in a social media era, where women’s bodies are being commodified and displayed more than ever.Andrea Dworkin’s seminal 1981 work on the issue of pornography argues that the industry serves only to harm and oppress women. Her discussion of pornography as an outgrowth of the power that men exert over women—the power of owning, the power of money, and the power of sex, among others—still blazes with its clarity and immediacy, and illustrates how these inequities, while displayed in raw form in pornography, are endemic in all media.With a lively and deeply compelling voice, Andrea Dworkin succinctly outlines her anti-pornography stance. Though the media environment may have changed, this passionately and powerfully argued classic remains a relevant and crucial contribution to the area of feminist studies.

About Andrea Dworkin

Andrea Dworkin was the coauthor, with Catharine A. MacKinnon, of civil rights legislation recognizing pornography as legally actionable sex discrimination. She wrote eleven books, including Pornography, Heartbreak, and Scapegoat. She died in April 2005 in Washington, D.C.


Reviews

Goodreads review by persephone on May 01, 2025

Women being beaten, choked or called derogatory words in pornography only perpetuates male violence against women. While some may argue that engaging in violent sex is a matter of personal preference, the subjugation and humiliation of women—even if consensual—should not be mistaken for sexual liber......more

Goodreads review by Rus on April 21, 2012

One of the first books that I read of Andrea and a book that mobilized me on my path from pornography consumer to anti-pornography activist and leader. One of the many brilliant and truly life-changing books I've read from Andrea!......more

Goodreads review by Ben on January 17, 2010

Everything in life is part of it. Nothing is off in its own corner, isolated from the rest. While on the surface this may seem self-evident, the favorite conceit of male culture is that experience can be fractured, literally its bones split, and that one can examine the splinters as if they were not......more

Goodreads review by Allison on January 03, 2012

I started writing down favorite lines from this and eventually realized I'd be copying damn near the whole book. But how can one resist with lines like this: "A bible piling up its code for centuries, a secret corpus gone public, a private corpus gone political, pornography is the male's sacred stron......more

Goodreads review by Lost_Clown on July 13, 2007

My first introduction to feminist opposition to pornography. The details and the passion of her work are inspiring and paints a realistic portrait of the harm that pornography does to women and our culture.......more