![]() ![]() In school, her nonconformist tendencies put her at odds with teachers in sixth grade, for instance, she refused to sing “Silent Night” at Christmas and was dropped from the choir. As a child, she often stayed with relatives because her father, a schoolteacher and postal employee, worked long hours, and her mother had heart trouble. ![]() Often at her side when she marched against pornography, he is her only immediate survivor.ĭworkin was born in Camden, N.J., to immigrant Jewish parents with progressive politics. Stoltenberg shared Dworkin’s feminist fervor and helped found the group Men Against Pornography. The two met in 1974 at a benefit for the War Resisters League and soon began living together. Her relationship with Stoltenberg was a subject of intense fascination for many who knew of Dworkin’s work. They were together for 30 years, the last seven as a married couple. ![]() Despite the violence she endured in her first marriage and her subsequent identification as a lesbian, her longtime companion was writer John Stoltenberg, who has described himself as an openly gay man. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |