NEW YORK – Andrea Dworkin, a feminist who viewed pornography as a violation of women's civil rights and a direct cause of rape and violence died on April 9. She was 58. Dworkin had been ill several years, and suffered from ailments including osteoarthritis.
Dworkin's first book, "Woman Hating," published when she was 27, launched her lifelong advocacy against pornography. She campaigned frequently on the subject.
Dworkin, originally from Camden, N.J., wrote more than a dozen books, including "Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation," which won the American Book Award in 2001. She was working on a book with the working title "Writing America: How Novelists Invented and Gendered a Nation," when she died.
Andrea Dworkin Dies at 58
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