Heartbreak

Always innovative, often provocative, and frequently polarizing, 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.

Andrea Dworkin was the co-author, with Catharine A. MacKinnon, of civil rights legislation recognizing pornography as legally actionable sex discrimination. She wrote eleven books, including Pornography, Heartbreak , and Scapegoat . She died in April 2005 in Washington, D.C. Ariel Levy is a contributing editor at New York magazine, and the author of Female Chauvinist Pigs . She lives in New York City.