Intercourse, by: Andrea Dworkin - Feminish

ACKNOWLEDGMENTSI thank my friends and colleagues in the international feministantipornography movement for their courage and love; there areso many, and I hope they will forgive me for not naming themhere as individuals. I thank John Stoltenberg for the gift of hislove and friendship. I especially thank Elaine Markson, GeriThoma, Phyllis Langer, Sandra Elkin, Robin Morgan, Anne Simon,Catharine A. MacKinnon, Kathleen Barry, Valerie Harper,Judith Malina, and Gerry Spence for their tremendous supportin the last years. Peter Grose and Jane Wood at Seeker & Warburgin London have been generous and strong advocates of mywork and I am deeply grateful to them. I thank Laura Wolff atThe Free Press for commissioning and publishing this book.Kathleen Barry made a special contribution to the discussion oflanguage in Chapter 7—and the idea that women speak a secondlanguage and have no language of our own is hers. I thank LettyCottin Pogrebin and Leah Fritz, each of whom challenged me towrite this book. I am privileged to know feminist activists andwriters from many parts of the world who fight for women’s freedomwith militance and compassion and I thank them as awoman for the pride they inspire.A ndrea D w orkinNew York City, 1986