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SCOPE AND CONTENT: The bulk of the audiotapes feature Andrea Dworkin either as the sole speaker or on a panel with others, but there are a few audiotapes featuring people in Dworkin's life who are made reference to in the paper collection. For related papers, see the finding aid for the Andrea Dworkin collection, MC 540. For related videotapes, see Andrea Dworkin videotape collection, 1981-1998 (...

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Accompanied by John Stoltenberg and Rick Osborne, Dworkin describes pornography scenarios, the relationship between poverty, prostitution and pornography, pornography as a civil rights issue, and the Minneapolis anti-pornography ordinance. Stoltenberg and Osborne speak about related topics.

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Accompanied by John Stoltenberg and Rick Osborne, Dworkin describes pornography scenarios, the relationship between poverty, prostitution and pornography, pornography as a civil rights issue, and the Minneapolis anti-pornography ordinance. Stoltenberg and Osborne speak about related topics.

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Dworkin, Catharine MacKinnon, Therese Stanton, and Florence Rush address the use of pornography in acts of violence against women, common pornography scenarios, victimization of pornography actresses, and the sexual abuse of children.

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On a panel at the University of Montréal, Dworkin talks about the one-year anniversary of L'École Polytechnique massacre, the private nature of violence against women, and the social meaning of masculinity. For a transcript, see MC 540, #83.7.

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Dworkin and MacKinnon speak to an audience of Women Against Pornography's invited guests about the common themes of pornography, and the Minneapolis ordinance and its legal history.

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60 minutes. Dworkin talks about the Right's and the Left's relationship with feminism and pornography. The panel also includes Shere Hite.

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Dworkin and MacKinnon speak to an audience of Women Against Pornography's invited guests about the common themes of pornography, and the Minneapolis ordinance and its legal history.

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60 minutes. On a WNBC radio talk show in New York City, New York, Dworkin discusses censorship, obscenity laws, and her and Catharine MacKinnon's anti-pornography legislation. Dworkin also talks about the difficulty she faced in getting letters to the editors published.

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45 minutes. Dworkin talks about her role as a radical and a feminist, her life as a writer and influences, the current state of the feminist movement, and the Minneapolis legislation, etc.

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45 minutes. Dworkin discusses her book, Letters from a War Zone, poverty and women, inequity in pay between the sexes, and other topics.

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120 minutes. Source tape for a radio interview in which Dworkin talks about her book, Letters from a War Zone, the etymological root of the word "pornography" and the historical evolution of pornography and prostitution from ancient Greece to mail-order brides. She also discusses the connection between pornography and rape, and how pornography and fetishism disrupts human relations.

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65 minutes. Dworkin is interviewed on radio talk show for KPFK. She discusses her book Mercy, her life as a writer, and sexual freedom in the 1960s.

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80 minutes. During a radio program called Women Hold Up Half the Sky on KALX in Berkeley, California, Dworkin discusses the Minneapolis ordinance, her book Intercourse, difficulties getting published in the United States, and the Meese Commission on Pornography.

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40 minutes. On a radio program in Los Angeles, California, Dworkin discusses her book, Mercy, the William Kennedy Smith rape case, and her career, etc.

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85 minutes. Dworkin reads from an unpublished manuscript called "Ruins" to an unidentified audience.

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60 minutes. Dworkin reads from her book, The New Woman's Broken Heart, to an unidentified audience. She also discusses the Minneapolis anti-pornography ordinance.

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105 minutes. At a bookstore in San Francisco, California, Dworkin reads from Letters from a War Zone, discusses the difficulties she has faced getting published in the United States, and misconceptions about her views on censorship.

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45 minutes. Dworkin reads to an unidentified audience from The New Woman's Broken Heart: Short Stories and other unpublished material.

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45 minutes. Side 1 only. Dworkin and others speak at her mother's funeral service.

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120 minutes. Dworkin lectures on the Marquis de Sade.

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120 minutes. Dworkin and MacKinnon continue their lecture on the Marquis de Sade.

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120 minutes. Dworkin discusses the film, Snuff, protests, and trying to get lawyers to support their efforts.

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120 minutes. MacKinnon begins with a discussion about obscenity laws.

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120 minutes. MacKinnon continues a discussion about the state versus rights of privacy.