Heartbreak

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8264-9442-9
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing plc

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 126 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 200 g

Dworkin's tone is dry and humorous. Heartbreak reveals for the first time the personal side of one of the women's movement's most influential figures.

- Dworkin was a controversial figure - celebrated and hated in equal measure
- Published one year after her death in April 2005, there will be increased interest through the press via serialisation and features
- Dworkin's previous books have achieved first year sales of 5000 in the UK alone.

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.
First published in hardback to coincide with the first anniversary of Dworkin's death, Heartbreak reveals for the first time the personal side of Andrea Dworkin's 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dworkin, Andrea

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Andrea Dworkin was a controversial and influential feminist writer and tireless campaigner against pornography and violence towards women. She died in April 2005. Author of 13 books, ranging across feminist theory, fiction and poetry, including Pornography, Intercourse and Scapegoat.