Woman Hating

Dworkin compares the place and depiction of women in fairy tales and pornography, focusing on the French erotic novels Story of O and The Image, and the magazine Suck. She then looks at the historical practices of Chinese foot binding and Medieval European witch burning from a radical feminist perspective. The book’s final section discusses the concept of androgyny within various cultures’ creation myths and argues for “the development of a new kind of human being and a new kind of human community” free from gender and gender roles.