![]() ![]() ![]() In this essay, I shall explore Dworkin’s discussions concerning the role of Genesis 2:4b-4:1 and the sodomy laws in Leviticus in the institutionalization of intercourse. ![]() It is this socially constructed determination of intercourse as “a means or the means of physiologically making a woman inferior” that underwrites all violence against women, indeed what naturalizes it, according to Dworkin. Her analysis concerns the broader and complicated contextual relations of power within which the act takes place. As a strictly materialist analysis of intercourse, of intercourse as an institutional practice distinct from intercourse as an unmediated individual experience, Dworkin’s focus is on those discourses (literary, philosophical, religious, legal) that have effectively constructed the political meaning of intercourse. ' Off Our Backs 17 ( June 1987 ), 14-15 Dworkin. Given Dworkins particularly visible and strident brand of feminism - highlighted by the argument in her provocative 1987 book 'Intercourse' that even consensual sexual penetration is a paradigm. ANDREA DWORKIN ON THE BIBLICAL FOUNDATIONS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMENĪccording to the late Radical Feminist thinker Andrea Dworkin, in her notorious book Intercourse (1987), women’s second-class status is attributable to the socially constructed definition of our bodies as lacking in physical integrity during intercourse. MacKinnon's Feminism Unmodified and Andrea Dworkin's Intercourse. ![]()
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