One of these radical feminists included Andrea Dworkin. The original solidarity between radical feminist women of all kinds (cis, trans, and gender-nonconforming alike) began to fall apart when some prominent radical feminists highlighted women who they felt were doing their womanhood and activism the “wrong way”: most notably, women who were trans, women who were sexually attracted to men, and sex workers and porn performers.
Unfortunately, radical feminism has become something different today. Many younger people today can hardly imagine the limitations forced on women even just forty or fifty years ago, and when taken in its historical context, radical feminism no longer seems so extreme after all. Starting from surround the 1970s, radical feminism in the US was a movement responding to a system that, for example, had zero sexual harassment laws for workplaces, barred women from having their own credit cards, and the legal right for employers and landlords to refuse to work with or rent to women.
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Unless you’re interested in feminist theory, most people haven’t heard about Andrea Dworkin or why she might be any more controversial than other feminist figures speaking out against patriarchal violence.
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