Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant

by Andrea Dworkin

Paperback, 2007

Status

Available

Call number

305.42

Genres

Collection

Your library

Publication

Continuum (2007), Paperback, 178 pages

Description

'This final, short book, is the unfolding development of a life and a mind. It reminds us that she was never primarily a political activist, but a writer and, to herself, a scholar ... Since she died last year, a victim of her en

User reviews

LibraryThing member SarahBarnard
Oh wow, this made me think but at the same time it was like have a natter with my best friend or a sister. Andrea Dworkin writes eloquently and honestly about a life filled with the poison of a patriarchal society and most of what she says holds true today.
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LibraryThing member experimentalis
a kind of contemporary "Confessions". Necessary
LibraryThing member BurrowK
very moving and personal account of her life and her struggles. Wonderful and refreshing to read.

Subjects

Dworkin, Andrea
Feminism United States
Feminists United States Biography

Physical description

178 p.

ISBN

0826494420 / 9780826494429

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