305. 4'2'0973
82-9784
ISBN 0-399-50671-3
AACR2
First Perigee printing, 1983
Printed in the United States of America
Acknowledgments
M any people went out of their w ay to help me in different w ays in
the course of m y w riting this book. I owe sincere thanks to Geri
Thoma, Anne Simon, Robin Morgan, Catharine A. MacKinnon,
Karen Hom ick, Emily Jane Goodman, Rachel Gold, Sandra Elkin,
Laura Cottingham, Gena Corea, and Raymond Bongiovanni.
I am very grateful to Sam Mitnick for supporting this project
and to all the people at Perigee involved in publishing it.
This book owes its existence to Gloria Steinem, whose idea it
was that I expand an earlier essay, “Safety, Shelter, Rules, Form,
Love: The Promise of the U ltra-Right”
book. I thank Gloria not only for the idea but also for her insistence on its importance.
And I thank, once again, both John Stoltenberg and Elaine
Markson, who sustain me.
Andrea Dworkin
New York C ity
March 1982
For Gloria Steinem
In Memory of M uriel Rukeyser
Contents
1. The Promise of the Ultra-Right
13
2. The Politics of Intelligence
37
3. Abortion
71
4. Jew s and Homosexuals
107
5. The Coming Gynocide
147
6. Antifeminism
195
Notes
239
Index
245
