Heartbreak by Andrea Dworkin

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Reveals the personal side of Andrea Dworkin's lifelong journey as an activist and a writer. She tells the story of how she evolved from a childhood lover of music and books into a college activist and embraced her role as an international advocate for women.

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Heartbreak by Andrea Dworkin

Always innovative, often provocative, and frequently polarizing, Andrea Dworkin has carved out a unique position as one of the women's movement's most influential figures, from the early days of consciousness-raising to the post-feminist present. Heartbreak reveals for the first time the personal side of Dworkin's lifelong journey as an activist and a writer. By turns wry, spirited, and poignant, Dworkin tells the story of how she evolved from a childhood lover of music and books into a college activist, embraced her role as an international advocate for women, and emerged as a maverick thinker at odds with both the liberal left and the mainstream women's movement. Throughout, Dworkin displays a writer's genius for expressing emotional truth and an intellectual's gift for conveying the excitement of ideas and words. Beautifully written and surprisingly intimate, Heartbreak is a portrait of a soul, and a mind, in the making.
Andrea Dworkin was the co-author, with Catharine A. MacKinnon, of civil rights legislation recognizing pornography as legally actionable sex discrimination. She wrote eleven books, including Pornography, Heartbreak, and Scapegoat. She died in April 2005 in Washington, D.C. Ariel Levy is a contributing editor at New York magazine, and the author of Female Chauvinist Pigs. She lives in New York City.
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ISBN 13 9780465017546
ISBN 10 0465017541
Title Heartbreak
Author Andrea Dworkin
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Basic Books
Year published 2008-10-20
Number of pages 240
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