The news of it has more or less traveled by meme, at least in America. The news outlets gave it a bye.
And for this I am thankful. I'm sick of the culture wars being waged over the bodies and the legacies of people after the fact. The Derrida obit in the NY Times still has me steamed.
I think that Dworkin's work was reductive, antagonistic and polemical as hell, which is not so much a criticism as a statement of fact. Wollstonecraft was the same sort of figure in her time, though history has softened our view of her. Both, I think, tried to shift the discourse out of those comfortable fall-back positions in which they had become entrenched.
Bright does a good job of situating Dworkin within the feminist discourse.
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Date: 2005-04-12 04:58 pm (UTC)And for this I am thankful. I'm sick of the culture wars being waged over the bodies and the legacies of people after the fact. The Derrida obit in the NY Times still has me steamed.
I think that Dworkin's work was reductive, antagonistic and polemical as hell, which is not so much a criticism as a statement of fact. Wollstonecraft was the same sort of figure in her time, though history has softened our view of her. Both, I think, tried to shift the discourse out of those comfortable fall-back positions in which they had become entrenched.
Bright does a good job of situating Dworkin within the feminist discourse.
Thanks for the news and the link.