
SCUM Manifesto
- 56 pages · about 1 hour
- First published 1967
- 14 editions
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1 About this book
"SCUM Manifesto was considered one of the most outrageous, violent, and certifiably crazy tracts when it first appeared in 1968. Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, self-published this work just before her rampage against the king of Pop Art made her a household name and resulted in her confinement to a mental institution.
But the Manifesto, for all its vitriol, is impossible to dismiss as just the rantings of a lesbian lunatic. In fact, the work has prescience, not only as a radical feminist analysis light-years ahead of its time - predicting artificial insemination, ATMs, a feminist uprising against under-representation in the arts - but also as a testament to the rage of an abused and destitute woman."
Good for readers who want: feminism and a short read.
- Sex differences
- Men, psychology
- Feminism
- Feminist literature
- Sex role
- Men
- Feminist theory
- Women, social conditions
2 About Valerie Solanas
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