Pornography: Men Possessing Women, by: Andrea ... - Feminish

Women Against Sexist Violence in Pornography and Media, and allthe feminist activists with whom I have had the honor to march, toplan, to picket, to talk, and to do other things. And I thank thosewho have organized and sponsored lectures, conferences, andseminars on issues of violence against women in which I haveparticipated.I owe very special thanks to Gena Corea for her contribution tomy understanding of the pornography of pregnancy.I also thank the hundreds of women, perhaps over a thousand,who have told me their experiences of rape and battery over theselast years. They are written into every page of this book and theywere with me in memory as I wrote. I am particularly grateful tothe women who told me about the use of pornography by theirhusbands, fathers, sons, brothers, and lovers, and about the use ofpornography in acts of sexual abuse that these women experienced.I thank the feminist workers in the areas of rape and battery whohave shared their knowledge and experience with me. I thank,always and forever, the feminist writers who have written onviolence against women. I thank the many readers of my work whocommunicated encouragement to me during the course of writingthis book. I thank the many individuals who have read this book orparts of it in manuscript and in proof.I also thank Linda Marchiano, who in the last months of mywriting this book has been an inspiration and an example.And finally I thank Sam Mitnick, who had the courage to publishthis book, and the people at Perigee.A n d r e a D w o r k inNew York City