The ACLU: Bait and Switch

Abstract

We asked Andrea Dworkin's permission to publish this piece after hearing her present it at an informal reading. Although Dworkin wrote the piece in 1981, she explained that, like many of her essays, it has never been published in the United States. It was published in England in the spring of 1988 in a collection of essays entitled Letters from a War Zone. If all goes well, Letters from a War Zone will be published in the United States next fall and Pornography: Men Possessing Women, which has been out of print for years, will be republished. The Yale Journal of Law and Feminism is pleased to publish The ACLU: Bait and Switch for the first time in the United States. We include the short preface Dworkin wrote to the piece for Letters from a War Zone.