Woman Hating

Woman Hating by Dworkin, Andrea. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780452268272.

Dworkin examines the place and depiction of women in fairy tales and pornography (focusing on the French erotic novels Story of O and The Image and the magazine Suck). She then looks at the historical practices of Chinese foot binding and Medieval European witch burning from a radical feminist perspective. The books final section discusses the concept of androgyny within various cultures creation myths and argues for "the development of a new kind of human being and a new kind of human community" free from gender and gendered roles.