SCUM Manifesto
First circulated on the streets of Greenwich Village in 1967, the SCUM Manifesto is a searing indictment of patriarchal culture in all its forms. Shifting fluidly between the worlds of satire and straightforward critique, this no-holds-barred classic is a call to action—a radical feminist vision...
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First circulated on the streets of Greenwich Village in 1967, the SCUM Manifesto is a searing indictment of patriarchal culture in all its forms. Shifting fluidly between the worlds of satire and straightforward critique, this no-holds-barred classic is a call to action—a radical feminist vision for a different world. This is an update of the essential AK Press edition, with a new foreword.Valerie Solanas was a radical feminist playwright and social propagandist who was arrested in 1968 after her attempted assassination of Andy Warhol. Deemed a paranoid schizophrenic by the state, Solanas was immortalized in the 1996 film I Shot Andy Warhol.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781849351805 (1849351805)
Publish date: October 8th 2013
Publisher: AK Press
Pages no: 80
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Feminism,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Womens,
Glbt,
Queer,
Gender,
Gender Studies,
Womens Studies
I am glad that someone told me to read this as satire, but that still didn't quite help. Jonathan Swift, she isn't. Still, important to read to simply capture a sense of feminism than. I also am left with the feeling that the pop opera I saw about Andy Warhol did Solanas a huge injustice.
There is a fine line behind crazy and inspired. There is also a fine line between crazy and genius but Valerie Solanas was no genius. For that matter, she probably wasn't crazy. At least, not at first. She was a very troubled woman damaged by child molestation and abuse. She appeared to have had vol...
cute book, and a handy guide for getting rid of some of these annoying guys crowding up the planet. valerie solanas is adorable!
i wanted to give this piece 2 stars because you can pull some good ideas and concepts out of her ranting, but i couldn't equate it with the other books that i've give 2 stars on this list. and i'm not cool with something so motivated by hatred, so i can live with the 1 star rating for this one. (w...
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