“We will know that we are free when the pornography no longer exists,” Andrea Dworkin concludes in her book Pornography: Men Possessing Women, originally released in 1981 and rereleased this year by Picador. It is easy to read the book nearly 45 years later as a well-meaning but quixotic and doomed quest. Even Dworkin seems to agree: “In the United States, the pornography industry is larger than the record and film industries combined. … [T]echnology itself demands the creation of more and more porneia to meet the market opened up by the technology.” Which is to say that she could at least have foreseen her descendants answering Andrew Tate and PornHub with OnlyFans. However, it’s curious what she would have thought of the complex fictions of Mary Gaitskill and Elfriede Jelinek, let alone the mainstreaming and diversifying of what it means to be feminist. What remains is less a vision of womanhood, whether totally enslaved or totally liberated, than an invitation for everyone to think, read, and speak against constricting conventions and misuses of progress.