D. A. Clarke is a radical feminist

Radical feminism

Radical feminism is a current theoretical perspective within feminism that focuses on the theory of patriarchy as a system of power that organizes society into a complex of relationships based on an assumption that "male supremacy" oppresses women...

 essayist and activist in the United States of America since 1980. Much of her writing addresses the link between violence against women and market economics, although she may be best known for her 1991 essay "Justice Is A Woman with a Sword". In that essay, which she has updated twice for editions of the anthology Transforming a Rape Culture, she argues that feminist theory

Feminist theory

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 has taken a dogma

Dogma

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tic approach to nonviolence

Nonviolence

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 and that women's self-defense

Self-defense

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, violent feminist activism

Activism

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, and the encouragement of positive media portrayals of violent women (such as in Kill Bill

Kill Bill

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or Xena: Warrior Princess

Xena: Warrior Princess

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) have not been given the serious consideration they should receive and that their dismissal from mainstream feminism, while it may ultimately be desirable, has not been based on a properly thorough analysis. Her most popular work, however, may be the one least often correctly attributed to her: the early poem privilege, which has been found on dorm refrigerators and bulletin boards ascribed to 'Anonymous.' In this case, at least, Anonymous really was a woman.

In addition to being published in print anthologies, much of her work has appeared online. Clarke also had brief visibility as an amateur/indie musician, with one album "messages" released on cassette in the mid 80's.

Print Media

• editor/consultant for Stan Goff
  Stan Goff
  Stan Goff is a writer, activist, and United States Army veteran having served from 1970 to 1996. He has been an anti-imperialist activist, feminist, socialist, and is now a Christian and a pacifist. He is the co-author of the weblog Feral Scholar, along with D. A...
  
  's book Sex & War 2006
• "Justice Is A Woman with a Sword: Some Thoughts on Women, Feminism, and Violence", essay published in Transforming a Rape Culture (ISBN 1-57131-269-2)
• "Prostitution for everyone: Feminism, globalisation and the 'sex' industry", essay published in Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution And Pornography (ISBN 1-876756-49-7)
• "Consuming Passions: Some Thoughts on History, Sex, and Free Enterprise", essay published in Unleashing Feminism: Critiquing Lesbian Sadomasochism in the Gay Nineties/a Collection of Radical Feminist Writings (ISBN 0-939821-04-4)
• "Whose Tale is This?" film review of 'The Handmaid's Tale,' published in off our backs June 1990 p 12
• "Moving Expenses" short story published in Sinister Wisdom #38 (1989)
• To Live With the Weeds (Herbooks 1985, 1987) is a solo collection of poetry
• "Stack o Wheats: An Exercise in Issues" essay published in Fight Back, feminist anthology, eds. Delacoste and Newman, 1984
• "The Evidence of Pain" essay published in Exposure magazine, 1982

External links

• De Clarke's Personal Homepage
• Feral Scholar (Shared blog of Stan Goff and DeAnander)
• Lazy Quote Diary (De Clarke's blog at European Tribune)
• U Dayton Discussion: R Whisnant class: Chat with readers of "Why is Beauty On Parade" (archived at Archive.org)

Essays

• Feminista! : "Do Men Need Prostitution?" (archived at Archive.org)
• Feminista! : "What is Feminism?" (archived at Archive.org)
• Feminista! : "Necro-Feminism" (with J C Page) (archived at Archive.org)
• NoStatusQuo: Justice Is A Woman With A Sword
• NoStatusQuo: Consuming Passions: Some Thoughts on History, Sex, and Free Enterprise
• NoStatusQuo: privilege: a poem for men who don't understand what we mean when we say they have it
• Z Magazine: "Scandals of Sexual Greed: The Catholic Church and pedophiles" (archived at Archive.org)
• The Nader Dilemma
• What is Beauty Anyway?
• Political Exposure: The Breast

Interviews

• Out in the Redwoods: De Clarke, interview by Irene Reti, 2002.