![]() ![]() I devoured it, gasping in wonder at the beautiful prose, and the brilliance of its reasoning. Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women’s Liberation. In late 1998, she sent me the manuscript of Over the next eight years, Andrea and I wrote and spoke regularly, and met up whenever we happened to be in the same country. There was something intoxicating about getting to know a woman who had been vilified as a man-hating misery but who was, in fact, a warm, open-minded intellectual. When Andrea and I met in Brighton in 1996, we connected instantly. It was an inventive use of civil law rather than banning or censoring pornography, it would have enabled victims of the porn industry to claim damages and recognition for the harm it caused. Women involved in pornography were called to testify from all over America. She had become famous in the early 1980s for the ordinance that she and the legal scholar Catherine McKinnon had drafted for Minneapolis, recognising pornography as sex discrimination and a violation of women’s civil rights. Andrea Dworkin died 10 years ago this week. ![]()
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