![]() ![]() Men also have the power of physical Strength. He then transfers this to other women in his life and uses women to enlarge himself. The first sign of his parasitism is in his relationship to his mother. Men have this self (an “unselfconscious parasitism”) and women must, by definition, lack it. Dworkin suggests that men occupy a powerful subject position that is protected by laws and customs, art and literature, documented in history, and upheld in the distribution of wealth. The "metaphysical assertion of self" is described as a subject position. She outlines the power of men as: 1) a metaphysical assertion of self 2) physical strength 3) the capacity to terrorize 4) the power of naming 5) the power of owning, 6) the power of money and 7) the power of sex. ![]() Dworkin argues that the industry is implicated in violence against women, both in its production (through the abuse of the women that are used to star in it) and in the social consequences of its consumption by encouraging men to eroticize the domination, humiliation and abuse of women. Summary ĭworkin analyzes (and extensively cites examples drawn from) contemporary and historical pornography as an industry that hates and dehumanizes women. An anti-pornography feminist, Dworkin argued that pornography dehumanizes women and that the pornography industry is implicated in violence against women. Pornography: Men Possessing Women is the third nonfiction book by American radical feminist writer and activist Andrea Dworkin. ![]()
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