WASHINGTON, April 12 (UPI) -- Controversial feminist author and campaigner against pornography, Andrea Dworkin, has died at her Washington home of undisclosed causes at age 58.
A self-described Jewish lesbian, the Camden, N.J. native's sexual politics emerged in her accounts of being violated as a child, raped as a teenager, beaten as a wife and assaulted as a prostitute.
Her first book, "Women Hating" was published in 1974, followed by numerous essays, novels and poetry collections, the New York Sun reported.
Dworkin made headlines in 1980 for collaborating with legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon on behalf of Linda Lovelace, star of "Deep Throat," whose civil rights they claimed had been violated.
Her most notorious work was 1987's "Intercourse," in which she claimed intercourse "is the pure, sterile, formal expression of men's contempt for women."
She died Saturday at home and is survived by her second husband, John Stoltenberg.
