![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To pose questions, spur action and in the author's own words, "Intercourse is search and assertion, passion and fury and its form-no less that its content-deserves critical scrutiny and respect." This is what the book exactly aims to do. ![]() Dworkin stops being female in this book and suggests that all women must begin to stop being women as constructed by men, for their integrity and survival. It is disturbing light, and she makes no excuse for casting it. Intercourse compels its readers to rip open their bodies and minds and examine them under the stark illumination Dworkin beams. While it is "easy" to read having been written in a lucid, scholarly manner without being highbrow, the book is difficult to comprehend. In this book, the author questions and challenges the value and meaning that men and women attach to Intercourse. In her new preface (1997) Dworkin describes her book as "…a book that moves through the sexed world of dominance and submission…" and rightly so. Intercourse, Dworkin's monumental book on the complexities of sex, now on its tenth anniversary edition, remains as forceful today as when it first appeared in 1987. ![]()
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