Life and Death

摘要: A collection of her most incisive essays and unpublished speeches, Life Death makes it clear why Dworkin has found place in the canon modern political thought. She begins here with a poignant autobiographical piece, which she recounts rare tenderness childhood Camden, New Jersey, odyssey, crushing pain brother's death. Lending hand to tragic current events, or what calls "emergencies, " like murder Nicole Brown Simpson, Hedda Nussbaum child abuse case, mass female students at college Montreal, inimitable way obvious things we stubbornly fail notice. Finally, guides us back core issues stake women's lives - pornography, domestic violence, rape, prostitution reminds that even after decades feminist so-called progress, gender is an ongoing war.