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for their friendship, warmth, and trust. And I thank

my parents, Sylvia and Harry Dworkin, for their devotion and support through all these years, which must have seemed to them interminable, when their daughter was learning her craft. I thank them for raising me with real caring and tenderness, for believing in me so

that I could learn to believe in myself.

Andrea Dworkin

New York City, July 1973

Part One

THE FAIRY TALES

You cannot be free if you are contained

within a fiction.

Julian Beck, The Life of the Theatre

Once upon a time there was a wicked witch and her

name was

Lilith

Eve

Hagar

Jezebel

Delilah

Pandora

Jahi

Tam ar

and there was a wicked witch and she was also called

goddess and her name was

Kali

Fatima

Artemis

Hera

Isis

Mary

Ishtar

and there was a wicked witch and she was also called

queen and her name was

Bathsheba

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Vashti

Cleopatra

Helen

Salome

Elizabeth