Intercourse, by: Andrea Dworkin - Feminish

Physical privacyargument used to sanction rapewithin marriage, 209exists legally for men using civilinferiors, 186metaphysically compromised,156-157premised on men’s physicalfreedom, 141rights claimed by Joan of Arc,128-129robbed by intercourse, 138, 154Playboy magazine, 231, 235, 236Playing for Time (F£nelon), 222Pogroms of Bogdan Chmelnicki, 86, 88Political Left, 60Political Right, 59-60Pornography, 165as any violation of woman’s body,175critiques, as sex-negative, 61and sadism, 240and semen, 236, 237social, 90, 97Possession. See Sexual possessionPower of men over women, 160-162,215-216affirmed by regulating malesexuality, 200cannot be changed withoutredistribution, 218endangered by impersonalpossession, 99predetermined by male gender,158-159repudiated by virginity, 120and sadism, death, 246Power of women, 18, 19over intercourse (Woodhull’smodel), 171-174Predators, sexual, 144, 147women transformed as (Dracula),150-151Prison rape, 219-220, 223-224Privacy. See Physical privacyProstitution, 138, 226of children, 247and lawless sex, 211negates self-determination, 181-182and racially degraded people,223-224Proust, Marcel, 194, 195Racismand castration, 220devalues people as dirty, 218-220,226, 227humiliation rituals, 222-223and loss of self-knowledge and love,72and sexual assault, 223-224, 225-226Rape, 35, 36, 150incestuous, 246, 247as insurrectionary act, 226of Joan of Arc, wearing femaleclothing, 130-131in marriage, 208of men through witchcraft, 81-82negates self-determination, 181-182as political oppression, 234prison. See Prison raperacially motivated, 219-220, 224,225-226as slavery, 171as supernatural possession (dybbuk),85of virgins prohibited, 120-121Rebellion, signified by virginity, 120Reformscontextual, political, 159and unchanging inferiority ofwomen, 160-162Reich, Wilhelm, 179, 221