This one-credit course is centered around Andrea Dworkin’s Mercy, with short supplementary readings from Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Beloved, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, and My Bondage and My Freedom. Weekly discussions will center on the literary style, advocacy strategy, politics, and context of this controversial book, with brief lectures setting the scene for each part of the book.
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Omnipresent man
The Analysis of Andrea Dworkin on Pornography states, "without symbolic male omnipresence in society women are victimized by fate; there is no one to blame and no hope for remedy." This reminds me of the part of Mercy when Andrea blames God for men's abuses. She says that God made men the way they are; that way, Andrea has some one to blame for their injustices. If the evil male character is rooted in God's creation, it means it's not a natural irreparable state, but a character that can be fixed. By blaming God, Andrea allows there to be hope for change. When Dworkin blames pornography for women's subordination, she blames men. So what is the remedy? Eradicate men? No, eradicate pornography so men do not have an outlet to oppress women in their fantasies; a mindset bleeds that bleeds over to reality.
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