Andrea Dworkin 1946-2005
by Lynne Miles // 15 April 2005, 11:11
Many of you will have already heard about the untimely death of Andrea Dworkin last weekend. She died in her sleep, aged 59.
You can read a biography of Andrea (which she prepared before her death) on the Women in London website. G2 carried a good obituary and accompanying article. You can also find a respectful obituary in the Financial Times, a somewhat snarky one in The Times ("With probability-defying regularity, she herself fell victim to the violence, misogyny and bias that supplied the primary theme of her speeches and more than a dozen books") and one in The Telegraph which, whilst a bit contemptous in places, has some great quotes from Andrea.
She was a truly inspiring character and probably one of the most maligned of all major feminist activists and thinkers. We need more voices like her, and she will be sadly missed.
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