Woman Hating

[1] She and Abrams began to work together on "early pieces and fragments" of a radical feminist text on the hatred of women in culture and history,[2] including a completed draft of a chapter on the pornographic counterculture magazine Suck, which was published by a group of fellow expatriates in the Netherlands.

[3] Before Dworkin left Amsterdam, she spoke with Abrams about her experiences in the Netherlands, the emerging feminist movement, and the book they had begun to write together.

I made that vow some thirty years ago, and I have not betrayed it yet.Dworkin compares the place and depiction of women in fairy tales and pornography, focusing on the French erotic novels Story of O and The Image, and the magazine Suck.

She then looks at the historical practices of Chinese foot binding and Medieval European witch burning from a radical feminist perspective.

[5] Kirkus Reviews stated that Dworkin is "bright, entertaining and incisive when she is dissecting the roles available to men and women as articulated in fairy tales, Christian myths and contemporary pornography", and that "most of what she has to say is not nearly so preposterous.