Reviews for Letters from a War Zone

The average rating for Letters from a War Zone based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-06-17 00:00:00 Josephine Stolark Warning, this review is kind of gushy. I want to give this book to all the trend-riding liberal feminists. You know, the ones who share articles on Facebook about how progressive Disney movies are, who make cute glittery "misandry" graphics, who say they're gonna "dismantle the patriarchy" with their sexy high heeled shoes and lipstick. As it's a collection of Dworkin's speeches and articles over the years, there is repetition, but not by any means to an irritating degree. In fact, we need to hear repeatedly about rape, abuse, pornography, and everything else that thrives on women's subjugation because it's fucking important. She's one of the best writers I know style-wise: refined yet accessible and devoid of all those empty infuriating buzzwords tossed around nowadays. Her anger is righteous and precise and still relevant, plus I think the fact that some of these were written as speeches gives them a special life. Additionally, she prefaces every piece with some of the context in which it was written, which makes for a very interesting look through history. The only downside is that she does cite a lot of statistics that are probably out of date by now (a few decades later), I'll have to research that. Reading this book was an unequivocal experience and I felt my heart going out so strongly to her. She's saying things that are so incredibly right and true, even though people ignored and still ignored her. She speaks a lot of the difficulty of being a poor woman writer and the vitriol she faced from anti-feminists as well as from supposed feminists. So I admire her so much for continuing to write and to speak, I am so thankful that she did so that women of other generations, like me, could find her, and, through her, ways of articulating what we've always known but been threatened against saying. The world lost something immeasurable when she passed away.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-04-28 00:00:00 Dave Berte A touching, beautiful, inspiring, and sometimes heartbreaking collection of essays and speeches by one of the greatest women to have ever lived. Women the world over miss you, Andrea. Thank you for speaking up for us so beautifully and so unequivocally when the rest of the world spat us out and left us to rot.