Translation from English (United States)
by Yeun Lagadeuc-Ygouf and Martin Dufresne
Proofreading by Christine Delphy
“Our Blood is a book that sprouted from a situation, the situation being that I couldn’t get my work published. […] I decided to write directly to people, for my own voice. I started writing this way because I had no other choice. She bypassed the publishing establishment with lectures …
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« Most feminists I know who have read Our Blood have told me
taken aside at one time or another to tell me that they had a
special affection and respect for him. I think he represents something
something really beautiful and special.
Maybe it’s because it was written for a human voice. Maybe it’s because I had to fight so hard to say what’s in it. Perhaps it is because Our Blood has directly touched the lives of so many women. “-
Andrea Dworkin
Indispensable theorist, incomparable writer and source of inspiration for several generations of feminists, Andrea Dworkin remains
more relevant than ever as women around the world mobilize
to fight against male violence that she was one of the first to
designate and fight. This essayist handled the verb like no other,
humor, anger, hope.
This collection reveals an extraordinary speaker who takes us into
the corners of misogyny, male power, sadism and masochism
sexual, violence, racism, discrimination. It shows the links that
exist between the oppression of women, racism, colonialism, slavery and other forms of exploitation:
« The history of our country is a story of spilled blood. All that has grown
here has grown in fields soaked in the blood of whole peoples. It’s a
nation erected on the human carrion of Indian nations. It is a nation
erected on the labor, killing and suffering of slaves. It is a nation
racist, a sexist nation, a murderous nation. It is a nation pathologically captive of a desire for domination. »
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
1. Feminism, art and my mother Sylvia
2. Renounce sexual “equality”
3. Remember witches
4. The atrocity of rape and the guy next door
5. The sexual politics of fear and courage
6. Redefining non-violence
7. Lesbian pride
8. Our blood: the slavery of women
in America
9. The root cause
Thanks
Sources
Femmages to Our Blood
AUTHOR
Andrea Dworkin (1946-2005) est
known not only for its criticism
pornography, which she compared
rape and other forms of violence
against women, but also
for his sharp and lucid analysis of
sex between men and
the women.
Richard Poulin
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