SOURCE: "Street Fighting Feminist," in The New York Times Book Review, October 29, 1989, pp. 11-2.

In the following review, Dickstein offers tempered criticism of Letter from a War Zone. According to Dickstein, "Much of what Andrea Dworkin has to say is important—whether you agree with it or not—but how she says it tends to undermine her argument."

Abbie Hoffman might have been pleased to see that someone still spells America with a "k," evoking in one small gesture the clenched fist, the pulsating energy and rebelliousness of the 1960's. Andrea Dworkin is still out there fighting, and hers is a very specific battle: against the way American culture treats women.

Ms. Dworkin, a novelist and the author of six books of non-fiction, is most famous for having initiated, with the feminist lawyer Catherine MacKinnon, legislation in Minneapolis in 1983 and 1984 that would have outlawed pornography as sex discrimination...