Vedic Horoscope for Dworkin, Andrea

American feminist, a prominent radical theorist, speaker and author of both fiction and non-fiction books, best known for the campaign she waged against pornography in the 1970s and 1980s. Born to Jewish immigrant survivors of the Holocaust, Dworkin and her younger brother (1949-92) were raised in suburban New Jersey. Her mother was a secretary while her father worked by day as a schoolteacher and by night packing parcels in a post office before becoming a guidance counselor. Dworkin was molested at age 9 and at 16, left home and began prostituting herself to cover her living costs. At 19, she was sexually assaulted by two male doctors in a Manhattan jail who forced her to endure an internal examination after she was arrested for protesting against the Vietnam War. In 1965, soon after this ordeal, she traveled to Greece and had an affair with an army officer. Returning to the U.S., she married, completed her BA in 1968 and moved with her husband to Amsterdam for five years, 1968-72. She suffered beatings and torture in her marriage, finally leaving her husband in 1971. It was a feminist friend who helped her escape the brutality of her marriage and she made a vow that she would devote her life to the cause of Women's Liberation. As the years went by and her anger increased, her size kept pace as she grew to a woman of massive girth.B.C. in hand, LMR