Also by Andrea Dworkin
Right-wing Women
ANDREA DWORKIN
A Perigee Book
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Copyright © 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982 by Andrea Dworkin
Copyright © 1983 by Andrea Dworkin
All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in
any form without permission in writing from the publisher. Published on
the same day in Canada by General Publishing Co. Limited, Toronto.
The author gratefully acknowledges permission from the following sources
to reprint material in this book:
The University of California Press for the excerpt from “The Coming
Gynocide, ” in
© copyright 1957 by The Regents of the University of California.
New' Directions Publishing Corporation for six lines from “Canto 9 1 ”
from
Pound.
Portions of this book have been published in slightly different form in
and
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Dworkin, Andrea.
Right-wing women.
Includes index.
1. Women’s rights— United States.
2. Conservatism— United States.
3. Right and left
(Political science).
I. Title.
[H Q 1426. D898
1982b]
305. 4'2'0973
82-9784
ISBN 0-399-50671-3
AACR2
First Perigee printing, 1983
Printed in the United States of America
Acknowledgments
M any people went out of their w ay to help me in different w ays in
the course of m y w riting this book. I owe sincere thanks to Geri
Thoma, Anne Simon, Robin Morgan, Catharine A. MacKinnon,
Karen Hom ick, Emily Jane Goodman, Rachel Gold, Sandra Elkin,
Laura Cottingham, Gena Corea, and Raymond Bongiovanni.
I am very grateful to Sam Mitnick for supporting this project
and to all the people at Perigee involved in publishing it.
This book owes its existence to Gloria Steinem, whose idea it
was that I expand an earlier essay, “Safety, Shelter, Rules, Form,
Love: The Promise of the U ltra-Right”
book. I thank Gloria not only for the idea but also for her insistence on its importance.
And I thank, once again, both John Stoltenberg and Elaine
Markson, who sustain me.
Andrea Dworkin
New York C ity
March 1982
For Gloria Steinem
In Memory of M uriel Rukeyser
Contents
1. The Promise of the Ultra-Right
13
2. The Politics of Intelligence
37
3. Abortion
71
4. Jew s and Homosexuals
107
5. The Coming Gynocide
147
6. Antifeminism
195
Notes
239
Index
245
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens
the conscience like individual responsibility. Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognitionof one’s self-sovereignty; the right to an equal place,
everywhere conceded— a place earned by personal
