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WASHINGTON:, Andrea Dworkin, an author and self-proclaimed radical feminist known for her vocal opposition to pornography, died here on Saturday at the age of 58, U.S. media reported on Tuesday. The medical examiner's office in Washington was still investigating the cause of death. Ms. Dworkin, who famously used terms like ``gynocide'' to describe the treatment of women, began writing in 1974. In her first book, ``Woman Hating,'' written at the age of 27, she wrote that her goal was ``to destroy patriarchal power at its source, the family, [and] in its most hideous form, the national state,'' the Post noted. But her most famous exploit was her battle against pornography, which she said incited violence against women and which she explored in her 1981 book ``Pornography: Men Possessing Women.'' Joining forces with legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon, Ms. Dworkin helped create an anti-pornography ordinance approved by several U.S. cities in the 1980s, but the Supreme Court ultimately ruled that it was unconstitutional, according to The New York Times. — AFP
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