Dworkin, Andrea (1946–2005)

US feminist writer. Arguing that pornography is a form of sexual discrimination, she worked with the lawyer Catharine MacKinnon (1946– ) to draft legislation outlawing pornography. They published Pornography and Civil Rights: A New Day for Women's Equality (1988).

Woman Hating (1974) is a history of the ways in which women have been subjugated by men, such as by foot-binding in China and witch-hunting. She edited the anthology Take Back the Night: Women on Pornography (1982). In Right Wing Women (1983) she discussed the reasons why women join the Republican Party. Her novels include the semi-autobiographical Mercy (1990).