leelulah's review against another edition
2.0
I think that what I will take with me about this book were the first chapters about literary criticism, especially the Sonata a Kreutzer, otherwise I just think it could have so many ways to improve its lacking Biblical criticism.
Yet, a fundamental read if you want to understand where Dworkin comes from, and I would say, maligned for the wrong reasons.
Yet, a fundamental read if you want to understand where Dworkin comes from, and I would say, maligned for the wrong reasons.
shulmaniel's review against another edition
4.0
I'm going to need to write a lot more about this. Thought-provoking and deliberately hyperbolic, to say the very least.
logolepslia's review against another edition
5.0
The political meaning of intercourse for women is the fundamental question of feminism and freedom: can an occupied people—physically occupied inside, internally invaded—be free; can those with a metaphorically compromised privacy have self-determination; can those without a biologically based physical integrity have self-respect?
sleepscienceslut's review against another edition
4.0
Definitely a tough book to digest but once I sat down to read it and give it its time I really enjoyed it. A lot of it was very theoretical but dworkin has been on my TBR for awhile. overall some great feminist shit as always 4/5 stars
katerrinah's review against another edition
2.0
This book is bloody incredible and I will write a better review when I'm not half asleep
_b_t_h_'s review
1.0
"...fucking, in which both the man & the woman experience maleness, essentially demands the disappearance of the woman as an individual; thus, in being fucked, she is possessed: ceases to exist as a discrete individual: is taken over.
The man is not possessed in fucking even though he is terrified of castration...even though he is terrified of never getting his cock back because she has engulfed it inside her, and it is small compared with the vagina around it...he is not possessed even though he rolls over dead and useless afterward, shrunk into oblivion.."
"..the mucous membrane that the man touches in intercourse with his penis, the vagina, is dirtly like the rectum. The penis evokes the turd in the rectum because the man has the experience of touching a membrane just like the rectal wall."
hmmmmm.......
The man is not possessed in fucking even though he is terrified of castration...even though he is terrified of never getting his cock back because she has engulfed it inside her, and it is small compared with the vagina around it...he is not possessed even though he rolls over dead and useless afterward, shrunk into oblivion.."
"..the mucous membrane that the man touches in intercourse with his penis, the vagina, is dirtly like the rectum. The penis evokes the turd in the rectum because the man has the experience of touching a membrane just like the rectal wall."
hmmmmm.......
tangerineteeth's review against another edition
4.0
The political implications of intercourse from a radical feminist perspective. The first half of the book examines different (male) authors' views of sex; the second is all her. Quite a fiery analysis, quite absorbing. It made me despair at times of the male sex, but it's not really fair to count that against it.