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Heartbreak : The Political Memoir Of A Feminist Militant by Andrea Dworkin
5.0
Dworkin's title sums her memoir up perfectly: it is heartbreaking. Dworkin is a master with words, and knows just how to use each word to its fullest meaning, knows how to create a sentence that will slice and dice your heart to pieces. Though she's often either loved or hated, she knows one thing and remembers how she knows this: she cannot be bought or sold, for she feels too strongly.
She remembers her piano lessons, remembers remembering them, having forgotten how musical she was as a child. She remembers protesting against her college, and then the wars, and then going to prison.
Even if you aren't a fan of Dworkin, you must admit one thing: she is brutally honest about the world, and herself. She cannot be anything but that, and for that alone, she is a respectable person, a person with a solid moral compass, a wise woman.
Having read all of her non-fiction work now, it was absolutely fascinating to read her memoir. Broken up into many short chapters, she describes all of the meaningful events that have led her to be the woman she is today, and how her thoughts and decisions and perceptions have been determined by her past, her socialization, her experiences as a woman.
Overall, this memoir is indeed heartbreaking, and just as gut-wrenching as every other text she writes. Well worth the read.
Review cross-listed here!
She remembers her piano lessons, remembers remembering them, having forgotten how musical she was as a child. She remembers protesting against her college, and then the wars, and then going to prison.
Even if you aren't a fan of Dworkin, you must admit one thing: she is brutally honest about the world, and herself. She cannot be anything but that, and for that alone, she is a respectable person, a person with a solid moral compass, a wise woman.
Having read all of her non-fiction work now, it was absolutely fascinating to read her memoir. Broken up into many short chapters, she describes all of the meaningful events that have led her to be the woman she is today, and how her thoughts and decisions and perceptions have been determined by her past, her socialization, her experiences as a woman.
Overall, this memoir is indeed heartbreaking, and just as gut-wrenching as every other text she writes. Well worth the read.
Review cross-listed here!