![]() ![]() And by collapsing the distinctions between real life-and-death issues (rape, brutality) and what are at worst trivial annoyances (Playboy centerfolds), she manages to trivialize all she touches. ![]() These are all serious subjects-indeed, in some cases, deadly serious-but Dworkin’s reflexive rhetorical overkill, her unrelenting outrage, serves to cloud rather than clarify the issues. In the writings contained within it-some originally given as speeches at feminist gatherings, others reprinted from magazines and journals and even the pages of this newspaper-Dworkin plays variations on the themes she’s explored in her previous books: pornography, prostitution, rape and violence against women. Readers familiar with Dworkin’s work will find very little in “Life and Death,” her newest collection of essays, that is new or surprising. ![]()
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