![]() ![]() ![]() These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. Today, who would argue that pornography is patriarchy’s central weapon? Indeed, who would argue that pornography is a political issue at all? Or that the relations between women and men are the central political issue? Keywords By the early 1990s, it was generally seen, at best, as a diversion. After the initial furore, however, the skirmishes - even battles - the book initiated both within and about feminism soon died down. Feminists’ single most important task, therefore, is to deal with pornography. It is thus patriarchy’s most powerful weapon. ![]() In, literally, re-presenting violence as sex, pornography at once instantiates and encourages the misogynist violence on which patriarchy relies and which it expresses. Pornography, she argued, not only constitutes violence against women but it constitutes the main conduit for such violence, of which rape is at once the prime example and the central image. Published in 1981, Dworkin’s Pornography: Men Possessing Women appeared to have changed the intellectual landscape - as well as changing many people’s lives. ![]()
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