ABSTRACT
Andrea Dworkin searches the nooks and the crannies of ancient history to uncover "primal androgynes" in different religions and cultures around the world. Dworkin's alternative mythological model is designed to expand the sexual possibilities, to liberate sexuality from its repressive confines at either pole, and to envision a broad sexual spectrum. Dworkin's primal androgynes and her notion of multisexuality promote models of human behavior based upon sexual fluidity rather than polarization into fixed identities. Dworkin's alternative vision relies on the same rhetorical strategies used throughout most of Woman Hating. Like the Women's Liberation Movement generally, Dworkin's feminism, including that of Woman Hating, originates in part in a repudiation of the sexism of the sexual revolution of the sixties. Woman Hating marks the beginning of her examination of the ways hegemonic cultural practices participate in the colonization of women.
