On Women – A new collection of feminist essays from the influential writer, activist and critic, Susan Sontag

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ISBN: 9780241996843
Title: On Women – A new collection of feminist essays from the influential writer, activist and critic, Susan Sontag
Author: SONTAG SUSAN

On Women brings together Susan Sontag’s most fearless and incisive writing on women, a crucial aspect of her work that has not until now received the attention it deserves

For the most part written in the 1970s during the height of second-wave feminism, Sontag’s essays are strikingly relevant to our contemporary conversations. At times powerfully in sync and at others powerfully at odds with them, they are always characteristically original in their examinations of the ‘biological division of labour’, the double-standard for ageing and the dynamics of women’s powerlessness and women’s power.

As Merve Emre writes in her introduction, ‘They offer us the spectacle of a ferocious intellect setting itself to the task at hand- to articulate the politics and aesthetics of being a woman in the United States, the Americas and the world.’

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 30/05/2024
Pages: 208
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