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By Jone Johnson Lewis, About.com Guide to Women's History since 1999

Andrea Dworkin Dies

Tuesday April 12, 2005
Andrea Dworkin, a radical feminist whose early activism including working against the Vietnam War, became a strong voice for the position that pornography is a tool by which men control, objectify, and subjugate women. With Catharine MacKinnon, Andrea Dworkin helped draft a Minnesota ordinance that allowed victims of rape and other sexual crimes to sue pornographers for damage, under the logic that the culture created by pornography supported sexual violence against women.

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