Andrea Dworkin Rape Case
In a now-famous first-person account in The New Statesman, Andrea Dworkin reported being drugged (she suspects gamma hydroxybutyric acid) and raped in an European hotel in 1999. In a respectful but suspicious followup in The Guardian, Catherine Bennett cast doubts on Dworkin's account. The case has sparked predictably fierce rhetoric among both those who admire Dworkin and those who despise her. Among the commentators, Susie Bright offered an unexpectedly compassionate and admiring take on Dworkin, who has allegedly called for Bright's "assassination" in the past. Julia Gracen in Salon surveyed the strange case in the course of reviewing Dworkin's new book.
MORE ABOUT ANDREA DWORKIN
Louise Armstrong calls Andrea Dworkin a feminist icon and ponders the extreme reactions Dworkin evokes among both supporters and enemies. (The Guardian, Jun 2001)
Andrea Dworkin defended and clarified her ideas in a 1995 interview by Michael Moorcock published in The New Statesman.
Andrea Dworkin's personal website has excerpts, interviews, a "lie detector" page countering falsehoods about her life and work, and a shopping area to buy t-shirts, mugs and mousepads emblazoned with Dworkin aphorisms.
