Interesting article in New York Review of Books by author of a new biography of Dworkin, talking about her life and work and arguing against the slur that she was a gender essentialist.
snip:
The bedrock of Dworkin’s feminism was, to the contrary, a repudiation of the essentialist, biological-determinist logic that undergirds fascism and genocide. She believed that men, women, and sex could be different from what they are now. In her 1995 preface to the second edition of Intercourse, she speaks to the stubborn misreadings of her book’s central argument, faulting her critics’ profound failure of imagination. “If one has eroticized a differential in power that allows for force as a natural and inevitable part of intercourse, how could one understand that this book does not say that all men are rapists or that all intercourse is rape,” she asked.
www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/02/15/the-power-of-andrea-dworkins-rage/