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Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant

Autor Andrea Dworkin
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 dec 2002 – vârsta de la 13 ani
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780465017546
ISBN-10: 0465017541
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 130 x 204 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Ediția:First Trade Paper Edition
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Basic Books

Notă biografică

Andrea Dworkinwas the co-author, with Catharine A. MacKinnon, of civil rights legislation recognizing pornography as legally actionable sex discrimination. She wrote eleven books, includingPornography,Heartbreak, andScapegoat. She died in April 2005 in Washington, D.C. Ariel Levy is a contributing editor atNew Yorkmagazine, and the author ofFemale Chauvinist Pigs. She lives in New York City.

Caracteristici

Guardian Weekend magazine has confirmed they will run a feature to tie in with publication. Julie Bindel, Guardian journalist, friend of Dworkin and founder of Justice for Women, who organised the recent Dworkin memorial service in London, will do the piece. Editor of Guardian Weekend magazine, Katherine Viner, is a feminist. Bindel has agreed to help with promotion.

Cuprins

Music 1 Music 2 Music 3 The Pedophilic Teacher ''Silent Night'' Plato The High School Library The Bookstore The Fight The Bomb Cuba 1 David smith Contraception Young Americans for freedom Cuba 2 The Grand Jury The Orient Express Easter Knossos Kazantzakis Discipline The Freighter Strategy Suffer the Little Chilldren Theory The Vow My Last Leftist meeting Petra Kelly Capitalist Pig One Woman It Takes a Village True Grit Anita Prisons Sister, Can You Spare a Dime? The Women Counting Heartbreak Basics Immoral Memory

Recenzii

'Andrea Dworkin's contentious reputation is a perfect example of media manipulation. This collection of memoirs, published to commemorate the first anniversary of her death, confirms that every bolshy, out-spoken freedom-fighter who is the anti-type of standard Western glamour, fast becomes a scapegoat for the hatred of unpopular and hard-to-sell ideas; such as feminism.' The Crack, 1 July 2006
'Dworkin appears before us, ravaged and thundering like one of Shakespeare's Plantagenet queens, to deliver her fearsome maledictions...one of the few remaining specimens of pure counterculture Romanticism' New York Times Book Review
'...Ultimately, it's a heart-healing journey of redemption and realization.'
'...The story of a deeply committed human being willing to challenge injustice where she sees it...In our deeply conformist age, Dworkin provides a model of conscience in action that should inspire everyone of any stripe to look, to listen, to think.'
'Heartbreak ... is her last completed book.  In it, her great, passionate voice lives on.'
'the title [Heartbreak] might even be enough to keep it out of the gender studies section of any bookshop.  Rather, it will be placed with all the other memoirs of victimised women.   Heartbreak is not the memoir of a victim.  Dworkin's tone is dry and humorous. Her persomality is warm and likeable and, shockingly, she has a wicked sense of humour.'
'you could not get a voice more intensely alive - in its analysis of inequities which bind and divide women across race and class, its incisive accounts of oppression and the costs of resistance, its eloquent love of creativity, and its take-no-prisioners truth-telling.'