Intercourse (book)

01Dworkin argued that the physical act of penetration occupied women's bodies in a way that mirrored property law — the woman becomes territory.
02She cited Tolstoy, Kobo Abe, Tennessee Williams, and Isaac Bashevis Singer as literary witnesses to the same argument.
03Dworkin explicitly denied in interviews that she called all sex rape — but the book never made that denial; readers inferred it anyway.

01Roman officer Volusenus struck Commius in the head with a sword during a supposed parley; Commius escaped and swore never to set eyes on a Roman again.
02Commius later negotiated a formal peace with Mark Antony on the sole condition that he never be required to enter Roman presence.
03He eventually crossed to Britain, founded a dynasty among the Atrebates tribe, and minted coins bearing his own name — the only Gallic rebel to build a kingdom afterward.

Facsimile of the Einstein–Szilard letter

Andrea Dworkin's 1987 book 'Intercourse' argued that penetrative sex was, structurally, an act of ownership — not metaphorically but legally and physically. She spent 200 pages refusing to soften it.