26-Sep

1946

Born in Camden, New Jersey

26-Sep

1947

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26-Sep

1948

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26-Sep

1949

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1949

Brother Mark born.

26-Sep

1950

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26-Sep

1951

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1951/52 Dworkin attends Parkside School, Camden NJ

26-Sep

1952

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26-Sep

1953

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26-Sep

1954

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13-Oct

1955

Ginsberg: 1st public reading of Howl! at Gallery 6, San Francisco.

26-Sep

1955

Andrea Dworkin 9

1955

Andrea Dworkin assaulted as a child.

"I was raped at nine, though not legally, since fingers and a hand were used for penetration, not the officially requisite penis."

26-Sep

1956

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1956 Andrea Dworkin moved to Delaware Township in New Jersey, (now known as Cherry Hill).

1956 When I was ten we moved to Delaware Township in New Jersey, a place New York Times writer Russell Baker described in a column as "nowhere along the highway," after which the outraged citizens changed the name to Cherry Hill.

01-Apr

1957

Andrea Dworkin attends Hebrew School.

It was April, and she said that every April she remembered. Passover, which usually occurs in April, is the time when Jews remember the Holocaust.

26-Sep

1957

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26-Sep

1958

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26-Sep

1959

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26-Sep

1960

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26-Sep

1961

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26-Sep

1962

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1962/3

Dworkin has affair with High School teacher??

Andrea Dworkin starts going to New York and gives sex for the bus fare.

26-Sep

1963

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01-Sep-64

1964

Dworkin starts undergraduate course at Bennington College?

"In September 1964 I went to Bennington College on scholarships and loans, loans he took out, not me."

26-Sep

1964

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01-Dec

1964

Dworkin first "prostitutes herself" on the streets of New York.

"For my first work period in December 1964 I took marginal political jobs in New York City and fucked for food and shelter and whatever cash I needed."

01-Feb

1965

?? Dworkin arrested in anti-war protest.

"In February 1965 I was arrested outside the United States Mission to the United Nations for protesting America's involvement in Vietnam."

01-Feb

1965

?? Dworkin claims to have been assaulted by two doctors while in Manhatten Women's House of Detention.

"I didn't understand why the male doctors… sexually assaulted me, or even that they did. I knew they ripped up my vagina with a steel instrument and told dirty jokes about women while they did it…" (Moorcock interview.)

01-Mar

1965

?? Meets and stays with Grace Paley in New York?

01-May

1965

?? Meets Barbara Deming in New York

01-May

1965

?? Dworkin goes to Greece (crete). Has affaire with army officer. Vanity publishes a volume of poetry.

"I… left the United States… after a rapelike trauma in Manhattan's Women's House of Detention…"

When did she go to Greece? What route did she take? How did she pay for the trip? By 'prostituting herself'? Why is she bunking off college after her father struggled so much to get the money together?

1965

Summer. Ginsberg at Royal Albert Hall, London. Big Beat Fest.

See Bob Dylan, Marianne Faithfull etc.

01-Sep

1965

?? Dworkin back at Bennington College?

26-Sep

1965

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1965

Sept 1965-June 66 Dworkin at Bennington?

1966

Summer? Ginsberg at 'Human Be-in', San Francisco.

26-Sep

1966

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1966

Sept 1966-June 67 Dworkin at Bennington?

1967

?? Dworkin goes to live in Amsterdam.

1967

?? Dworkin gets married???

Where? Amsterdam or New York? Where and when did she divorce? Is she divorced?

"The knowledge about male dominance in sex came not only from this one marriage but from several years of prostituting before I got married…"

1967

Sept 1967-June 1968 Dworkin's final year at Bennington?

26-Sep

1967

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01-Jun

1968

?? Dworkin "leaves the US for a second time". Goes to live in Amsterdam with husband. (Implication being that she married in New York?)

Whom did she marry? When? Where? Where did she meet alleged husband? Is she divorced? If so, when?

28-Aug

1968

Ginsberg: Poetry reading Grant Park, Chicago.

DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION???

1968

?? Dworkin graduates from Bennington College, Vermont with BA

26-Sep

1968

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1969

Soft Machine live at the Paradiso Club, Amsterdam

01-Aug

1969

Dworkin's father represents her at Bennington College graduation ceremony.

"In 1969 my father, fittingly, attended my graduation and picked up my diploma. I am considered a graduate of the class of 1968, however, because that is how Bennington keeps track of students."

26-Sep

1969

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1970

Summer. Ginsberg touring communes in the American South-West.

(Including Morningstar Commune, New Mexico.)

26-Sep

1970

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26-Sep

1971

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26-Nov

1971

?? Dworkin's marriage ends.

Amsterdam: "I left the marital home toward the end of 1971, some two months after I turned twenty-five."

1972

Dworkin stalked and beaten by Dutch 'husband' in Amsterdam.

Amsterdam: "I have no continuous memory of the events of that year. Even with the events I can remember, I have no sense of their sequence."

1972

Summer? Ginsberg at Democratic and Republican Conventions, Miami, Florida.

26-Sep

1972

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01-Nov

1972

?? Dworkin leaves Amsterdam and returns to New York.

"I fled the country in which I had been living for five years in November 1972."

26-Sep

1973

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01-Apr

1974

Dworkin lectures at Smith College.

Book tour promoting "Woman Hating"?

30-Apr

1974

Publication of: Woman Hating: A Radical Look at Sexuality

26-Sep

1974

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1974

Dworkin moves in to live with John Stoltenberg.

John Stoltenberg

26-Sep

1975

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1976

Publication of: Our Blood: Prophecies and discourses on Sexual Politics

1976

Dworkin in Florida Keys

"In 1976, my friend John Stoltenberg and I went down to Sugarloaf Key in Florida to live on shared land with Barbara and her lover, Jane Verlaine. I couldn't tolerate the subtropical climate so after five months John and I moved north again…"

26-Sep

1976

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26-Sep

1977

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26-Sep

1978

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26-Sep

1979

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26-Sep

1980

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01-Nov

1980

Captain Beefheart live at the Paradiso Club, Amsterdam

26-Sep

1981

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26-Sep

1982

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1983

Publication of: Right-wing Women: The Politics of Domesticated Females (1983)

1983

Dworkin in Minneapolis.

"When Catharine MacKinnon and I were trying to pass the civil-rights law recognising pornography as sex discrimination in Minneapolis in 1983, politicians kept talking to me about incinerators."

1983

Dworkin in Northern Ireland.

Promoting "Right-Wing Women"?

26-Sep

1983

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1983

Fall 1983 Dworkin teaches semester at University of Minneapolis.

26-Sep

1984

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26-Sep

1985

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1986

Publication of: Ice and Fire (1986)

Ice and Fire, published by Secker & Warburg in the United Kingdom in 1986, was the first of several books to have widespread British distribution while remaining unsold in the U.S.

26-Sep

1986

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26-Sep

1987

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1988

Publication of: Pornography and Civil Rights: A New Day for Women's Equality

1988

Dworkin visits Israel for the first and last time. Sparks off SCAPEGOAT project.

(But not until 1991?)

26-Sep

1988

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1989

Publication of: Letters from a War Zone (1989)

26-Sep

1989

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1990

Dworkin 'gang raped' while she is writing 'Mercy'?

Stoltenberg: "...her still-raw memories of multiple rape while writing Mercy".

26-Sep

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1991

Publication of: Mercy (1991)

1991

Dworkin's mother dies at the age of seventy-six

1991

Dworkin starts work on SCAPEGOAT?

26-Sep

1991

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30-Apr

1992

Dworkin's brother, Mark dies.

"On April 30, 1992, at the age of forty-two, my brother Mark died of cancer. This was exactly eighteen years after the publication date of WOMAN HATING, an anniversary that will never make me happy again."

03-May

1992

Dworkin article published as letter in New York Times Book Review, May 3, 1992

"The narrative was a first-person detailed telling of rapes and assaults. The day my piece was published as a nearly full-page letter edited from the article I had intended, my father and I were on a plane to Vienna…"

26-Sep

1992

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26-Sep

1993

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26-Jun

1994

Trapped in a Pattern of Pain, published in the Los Angeles Times, June 26, 1994.

26-Sep

1994

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21-Apr

1995

Moorcock interview with Dworkin published in New Statesman.

Moorcock, Michael, Fighting talk. (interview with feminist Andrea Dworkin), Vol. 8, New Statesman & Society, 04-21-1995, pp 16(3).

26-Sep

1995

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26-Sep

1996

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17-Mar

1997

Dworkin delivers keynote address at Grand Valley State University's Women's Festival.

Promoting "Life and Death: A Collection of Essays on Violence and Battery…"

26-Sep

1997

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26-Sep

1998

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19-May

1999

Paris 'Drug Rape' incident. Read what all the fuss is about here.

26-Sep

2000

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13-May

2000

Dworkin interview on Scapegoat published in the Guardian Weekend. She does not mention Paris incident.

27-May

2000

Michael Sheldon interview with Dworkin appears in Daily Telegraph. She does not mention Paris Incident.

05-Jun

2000

Article about Paris 'Drug Rape' incident appears in the New Statesman

08-Jun

2000

Guardian: Catherine Bennett challenges veracity of 'Drug Rape' story.

09-Jun

2000

Scapegoat published in the UK.

01-Aug

2000

16-Aug

26-Sep

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