A review by emer_otoole
Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant by Andrea Dworkin

4.0

A political memoir is the right title, as this autobiography treads gently around the personal. The first few chapters are about music and books Dworkin liked as a young woman – sort of Proustian in tone. I’m not a fan of that kind of writing, but I’m glad I didn’t give up - as Dworkin tells the story of how she developed into a writer and an activist, I realised that this is not just her story. It's the story of male violence; it's the story of a woman on the male-dominated left; it’s a story from the feminist front lines; it’s the story of the many women who spoke through Dworkin, and for whom she lived and worked. A valuable insight into the heart of one of the legends of the second wave.