5/12/2023 0 Comments Woman hating andreaBut she is bright, entertaining and incisive when she is dissecting the roles available to men and women as articulated in fairy tales, Christian myths and contemporary pornography - they do indeed contain ""cultural truths."" Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White are desirable to the Prince because they are beautiful, passive and helpless. Her shrill, bludgeoning style will probably put you off and her conclusion - that we must all embrace ""androgynous myths"" to destroy the master/slave relationship - will only be accepted by the fringes of the Women's Movement. Dworkin covers a lot of ground - Cinderella and Snow White, the ancient Chinese custom of footbinding, medieval witchcraft and Screw magazine - in her efforts to document the victimization of Woman.
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