Feminist Duration Reading Group: Right-Wing Women

Tue 4 July, 7-9pm
SPACE Mare Street
Free & all welcome

In a deeply ambivalent celebration of Independence Day, this 4th July we revisit the writing of Andrea Dworkin, American research-led polemicist and radical feminist activist. Together we will read the first chapter of Dworkin's book Right-Wing Women (New York: Perigree, 1983), 'The Promise of the Ultra-Right' (pp. 13-35), and discuss its historical and current implications and insights in the context of the recent resurgence and mainstreaming of the ultra right.

Although Dworkin's work is well-known within Anglophone feminist circles, and her ideas on sexual violence and pornography have been hotly debated and contested, relatively little attention has been paid to her analysis of right-wing women.  

This session is led by feminist art historian Alexandra Kokoli.

Right-Wing Women is widely available in paperback and can also be freely accessed online

The Feminist Duration Reading Group focuses on under-known and under-appreciated feminist texts, movements, groups and struggles from outside the Anglo-American feminist tradition. Started at Goldsmiths, University of London, in March 2015, since July 2015 it has met at SPACE, 129 – 131 Mare Street in Hackney.

The group generally meets on the first Tuesday of the month at 7pm and is open to people of all genders. 

If you would like to join the Feminist Duration Reading Group mailing list, or propose a focus for a subsequent session, please email feministduration@gmail.com.