Right-Wing Women

Name: Right-Wing Women
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Andrea Dworkin
ISBN: 9798349137839

Author: Andrea Dworkin

Narrator: Erin DeWard

Unabridged: 9 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media, LLC

Published: 04/03/2026

Categories: Nonfiction, Social Science, Women's Studies, Gender Studies, Feminism & Feminist Theory

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

With a new foreword by Moira Donegan, this long-awaited reissue of Dworkin’s iconic study of women in American conservatism is paired with a bold, modern package to match Dworkin’s visionary perspective and style.Andrea Dworkin wrote Right-Wing Women in 1983―a crucial and deeply illuminating analysis of the right’s position on abortion, homosexuality, antisemitism, female poverty, and antifeminism. Forty years later, the book feels more vibrant, clear-eyed, and visionary than ever, especially as these issues get relitigated in both legal and public forums. In addition to her revelatory and nuanced portraits of figures like Anita Bryant and Phyllis Schlafly, and an examination of the roots of a distinctly woman-led brand of American conservatism, Right-Wing Women will give readers the thrill of rediscovering the force and elegance of Dworkin’s arguments and her skill as one of our most adept and prophetic feminist thinkers.This audiobook is expertly read by Erin deWard, with audio engineering by Blake Rook. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.Copyright (C) 1978, 1978, 1981, 1982, 1983 by Andrea Dworkin. Foreword copyright (C) 2025 by Moira Donegan. Published by arrangement with Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. (P) 2026 Echo Point Books & Media, LLC

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 Allison on April 05, 2011

Can I give this book 10 stars? No? Bummer... One word sums up this book: BRUTAL. There's a lot of discussion amongst radical feminists about "following a thought to its logical conclusion." This means not stopping when an idea steps on PC toes or becomes uncomfortable - or downright dangerous - eithe......more

Goodreads review by Trevor on March 30, 2026

Before he was Prime Minister of Australia, Tony Abbott once said on national television, “I think there does need to be give and take on both sides, and this idea that sex is kind of a woman’s right to absolutely withhold, just as the idea that sex is a man’s right to demand I think are both, they b......more

Goodreads review by Meike on December 03, 2025

This book was written more than 40 years ago, and it's very timely. *sigh* While feminism has come a long way and the conversation has evolved, it's still worth pondering Dworkin's ideas, because she was a sharp thinker and a passionate fighter for gender equality. Sure, her fierce style that is fre......more

Goodreads review by Jude on January 10, 2013

i am 64 - this book brought my mother's generation to me in compassionate and world-view-changing ways back when it first came out. Dworkin's respectful and insightful take on the innately sexual politics of conservative women has proved prescient and sadly, all too relevant still. please click the a......more

Goodreads review by Ellen on January 05, 2009

Andrea Dworkin gets such a bad rap among (some) feminists and anti-feminists alike that I was slightly wary to actually go out and find one of her books. But, in an attempt to figure out what the majority of my female relatives are thinking, I picked this up. And it was damn worth it. Firstly...did......more