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A carregar... Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militantpor Andrea Dworkin
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. very moving and personal account of her life and her struggles. Wonderful and refreshing to read. ( ) Dworkin was a gift. Dedicated, full to the brim with compassion, intellectually brave, and in my mind a revolutionary. I loved the way this series of autobiographical essays gave glimpses into her life that really fleshed out who she was and how she got there. It makes me wish I could have met her. A tantalising glimpse of an incredible woman. I'd already read Intercourse and a few essays and interviews. I've got most of her books as pdfs but hadn't managed to get them onto my kindle until now. After this one I'm going to try reading the rest chronologically. I feel like this served as a good introduction, giving context to rest of her work. I loved this. I would have given it five stars apart from the sudden short burst of trans*-hatred at the end of the book. Disappointing. I do love Dworkin's style, though; her passion and her way with words and her uncompromising attitude. This memoir is a fast read, made up of short snapshots of her life. It's Dworkin, so I wouldn't call it an easy read, given that her work was in confronting horrific abuse of herself and so many others. But it's engaging and wonderful as well as horrible and, yes, heartbreaking. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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