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A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag's writing on women, gathering early essays on aging, equality, beauty, sexuality, and fascism

Susan Sontag was one of the most formidable, original, and influential thinkers of the last century. The most interesting ideas are heresies, she remarked, and indeed, her writing rejects the familiar and refuses party lines.

On Women presents seven essays and exchanges, spanning a range of subjects: the challenges and humiliations women face as they age; the relationship between women's liberation and class struggle; beauty, which Sontag calls that over-rich brew of so many familiar opposites; feminism; fascism; and film. Taken together, these piecesrelentlessly curious, historically precise, politically robust, and allergic to easy categorization Sontag's inimitable mind at work.

On Women

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    A Paperback / softback by Susan Sontag, Merve Emre, David Rieff

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      Publisher Picador USA
      Published 30 May 2023
      ISBN-13 9781250876850
      978-1250876850
      ISBN-10 1250876850
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      Literary studies: general Feminism and feminist theory Gender studies, gender groups

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag's writing on women, gathering early essays on aging, equality, beauty, sexuality, and fascism

      Susan Sontag was one of the most formidable, original, and influential thinkers of the last century. The most interesting ideas are heresies, she remarked, and indeed, her writing rejects the familiar and refuses party lines.

      On Women presents seven essays and exchanges, spanning a range of subjects: the challenges and humiliations women face as they age; the relationship between women's liberation and class struggle; beauty, which Sontag calls that over-rich brew of so many familiar opposites; feminism; fascism; and film. Taken together, these piecesrelentlessly curious, historically precise, politically robust, and allergic to easy categorization Sontag's inimitable mind at work.

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