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Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics In this fierce and beautiful book, the author of Pornography: Men Possessing Women confronts our most profound social disgrace: the sexual, cultural, and political subjugation of women to men, and with rare eloquence examines the systematic crimes of our male-dominated society against women. “Our Blood is long overdue—all women must welcome the vigor and the incisive perception of this young feminist. ” —Flo Kennedy “Andrea Dworkin’s writing has the power of young genius —Leah Fritz “Andrea Dworkin has dedicated the title chapter of her book to the Grimke sisters, and it would have pleased them, I think—since it contains material which can serve at once as source and inspiration for women. ” —Robin Morgan “Women, looking into the mirror of Out Blood, will feel anguish for our past suffering and enslavement—and outrage at our present condition. Men, if they dare to look into this mirror, will turn away in shame and horror at what they have done. ” —Karla Jay “It is great—scary and innovative and great.” —Karen DeCrow “Our Blood takes a hard, unflinching look at the nature of sexual politics. Each essay reveals us to ourselves, exposing always the dynamics which have kept women oppressed throughout the ages. Our Blood compels us to confront the truth of our lives in the hope that we will then be able to transform them. ” —Susan Yankowitz Books by Andrea DworkinWOMAN Books byAndreaDworkinWOMAN HATING THE NEW WOMANS BROKEN HEART pornography : m e n p o s s e s s in g w o m e n Perigee Books are published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons 200 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10016 Copyright © 1976 by Andrea Dworkin New preface copyright © 1981 by Andrea Dworkin All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission. Published simultaneously in Canada by Academic Press Canada Limited, Toronto. “Feminism, Art, and My Mother Sylvia.*' Copyright Q 1974 by Andrea Dworkin. First published in Social Policy, May/June 1975. Reprinted by per­ mission of the author. “Renouncing Sexual ‘Equality. ’” Copyright © 1974 by Andrea Dworkin. First published in WIN, October 17, 1974. Reprinted by permission of the author. “Remembering the Witches. ” Copyright © 1975 by Andrea Dworkin. First published in WIN, February 20, 1975. Reprinted by permission of the author. “The Rape Atrocity and the Boy Next Door. ” Copyright © 1975 by An­ drea Dworkin. First delivered as a lecture. “The Sexual Politics of Fear and Courage. ” Copyright © 1975 by Andrea Dworkin. First delivered as a lecture. “Redefining Nonviolence. ” Copyright © 1975 by Andrea Dworkin. Pub­ lished in WIN, July 17, 1975. Delivered as a lecture under the tide “A Call to Separatism. ” Reprinted by permission of the author. “Lesbian Pride. ” Copyright © 1975 by Andrea Dworkin. First published under the title “What Is Lesbian Pride? ” in The Second Wave, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1975. Delivered as a lecture under the title “What Is Lesbian Pride? ” Re­ printed by permission of the author. “Our Blood: The Slavery of Women in Amerika. ” Copyright © 1975 by Andrea Dworkin. First delivered as a lecture under the title “Our Blood. ” “The Root Cause. ” Copyright © 1975 by Andrea Dworkin. First delivered as a lecture under the title “Androgyny. ” Grateful acknowledgment is made to Random House, Inc., for permission to reprint from The Random House Dictionary of the English Language. Copyright © 1966, 1967 by Random House, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Dworkin, Andrea. Our blood. Reprint. Originally published: New York: Harper & Row, cl976. Bibliography: p. 1. Women—Social conditions. 2. Feminism. I. Title. HQ1154.D85 1981 305.4'2 81-7308 ISBN 0-399-50575-X AACR2 First Perigee printing, 1981 Printed in the United States of America C o n ten ts Preface xi 1. Feminism, Art, and My Mother Sylvia 1 2. Renouncing Sexual “Equality” 10 3. Remembering the Witches 15 4. The Rape Atrocity and the Boy Next Door 22 5. The Sexual Politics of Fear and Courage 50 6. Redefining Nonviolence 66 7. Lesbian Pride 73 8. Our Blood: The Slavery of Women in Amerika 76 9. The Root Cause 96 Notes 113 FOR BARBARA DEMING I suggest that if we are willing to confront our own most seemingly personal angers, in their raw state, and take upon ourselves the task of translating this raw anger into the disciplined anger of the search for change, we will find ourselves in a position to speak much more persuasively to comrades about the need to root out from all anger the spirit of murder. Barbara Deming, “On Anger” We Cannot Live Without Our Lives Now, women do not ask half of a kingdom but their rights, and they don’t get them. When she comes to demand them, don’t you hear how sons hiss their mothers like snakes, because they ask for their rights; and can they ask for anything less?. .. But we’ll have our rights; see if we don’t; and you can’t stop us from them; see if you can. You can hiss as much as you like, but it is coming. Sojourner Truth, 1853 ACKNOWLEDGMENTSI thank Kitty Benedict, ACKNOWLEDGMENTSI Phyllis Chesler, Barbara Deming, Jane Gapen, Beatrice Johnson, Eleanor Johnson, Liz Kanegson, Judah Kataloni, Jeanette Koszuth, Elaine Markson, and Joslyn Pine for their help and faith. I thank John Stoltenberg, who has been my closest intellectual and creative collaborator. I thank my parents, Sylvia and Harry Dworkin, for their continued trust and respect. I thank all of the women who organized the conferences, programs, and classes at which I spoke. I thank those feminist philosophers, writers, organizers, and prophets whose work sustains and strengthens me. PREFACE Our Blood is a book that grew out of a situation. The situation was that I could not get my work published. So I took to public speaking—not the extemporaneous exposi­ tion of thoughts or the outpouring of feelings, but crafted prose that would inform, persuade, disturb, cause recogni­ tion, sanction rage. I told myself that if publishers would not publish my work, I would bypass them altogether. I decided to write directly to people and for my own voice. I started writing this way because I had no other choice: I saw no other way to survive as a writer. I was convinced that it was the publishing establishment—timid and powerless women editors, the superstructure of men who make the real decisions, misogynistic reviewers—that stood between me and a public particularly of women that I knew was there. The publishing establishment was a formidable blockade, and my plan was to swim around it. In April 1974 my first book-length work of feminist theory, Woman Hating, was published. Before its publica­ tion I had had trouble. I had been offered magazine assignments that were disgusting. I had been offered a great deal of money to write articles that an editor had already outlined to me in detail. They were to be about women or sex or drugs. They were stupid and full of lies. For instance, I was offered $1500 to write an article on the use of barbiturates and amphetamines by suburban women. I was to say that this use of drugs constituted a hedonistic rebellion against the dull conventions of sterile housewifery, that women used these drugs to turn on and swing and have a wonderful new life-style. I told the editor that I suspected women used amphetamines to get through miserable days and barbiturates to get through miserable nights. I sug­ gested, amiably I thought, that I ask the women who use the drugs why they use them. I was told flat-out that the article would say what fun it was. I turned down the assignment. This sounds like great rebellious fun—telling establishment types to go fuck themselves with their fistful of dollars—but when one is very poor, as I was, it is not fun. It is instead profoundly distressing. Six years later I finally made half that amount for a magazine piece, the highest I have ever been paid for an article. I had had my chance to play ball and I had refused. I was too naive to know that hack writing is the only paying game in town. I believed in “literature, ” “principles, ” “politics, ” and “the power of fine writing to change lives. ” When I refused to do that article and others, I did so with considerable indignation. The indignation marked me as a wild woman, a bitch, a reputation rein­ forced during editorial fights over the content of Woman Hating, a reputation that has haunted and hurt me: not hurt my feelings, but hurt my ability to make a living. I am in fact not a “lady, ” not a “lady writer, ” not a “sweet young thing. ” What woman is? My ethics, my politics, and my style merged to make me an untouchable. Girls are sup­ posed to be invitingly touchable, on the surface or just under. I thought that the publication of Woman Hating would establish me as a writer of recognized talent and that then I would be able to publish serious work in ostensibly serious magazines. I was wrong. The publication of Woman Hating, about which I was jubilant, was the beginning of a decline that continued until 1981 when Pornography: Men Possess­ ing Women was published. The publisher of Woman Hating did not like the book: I am considerably understating here. I was not supposed to say, for example, “Women are raped. ” I was supposed to say, “Green-eyed women with one leg longer than the other, hair between the teeth, French poodles, and a taste for sauteed vegetables are raped occasionally on Fridays by persons.
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