In 1969 she moved to Europe, where she suffered through an abusive marriage. During an anti– Vietnam War protest march in New York City, she was arrested and subjected to a violent and humiliating body cavity search by two male policemen. Dworkin was one of the most radical American feministsīorn in Camden, New Jersey, Dworkin attended Bennington College in Vermont. In defense of women’s rights, Andrea Dworkin (1946–2005), a radical feminist writer and theorist, launched sweeping attacks on pornography that led to harsh criticism of her by civil libertarians as well as by anti-feminists. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, used with permission from the Associated Press) She denied First Amendment protections for pornography. Dworkin was a feminist who viewed pornography as a violation of women's civil rights and a direct cause of rape and violence. Civil rights advocate and author Andrea Dworkin speaks to a federal commission on pornography in New York in this 1986 photo.
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