| Scum Manifesto Revised Edition Contributor(s): Solanas, Valerie (Author) |
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ISBN: 1849351805 ISBN-13: 9781849351805 Publisher: AK Press OUR PRICE: $9.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Feminist - Social Science | Women's Studies - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory |
| Dewey: 305.3 |
| LCCN: 2013945477 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 4.4" W x 6.3" (0.20 lbs) 80 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Chronological Period - 1960's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 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. "To see the SCUM Manifesto's humor, to let it crack you up page after page, is not to read it as a joke. It's not. The truth of the world as seen though Valerie's eyes is patently absurd, a cosmic joke. Humor such as this is a muscle, a weapon... It was the truth, and the truth is so absurd it's painful." --Michelle Tea "Unhampered by propriety, niceness, discretion, public opinion, 'morals', the respect of assholes, always funky, dirty, low-down SCUM gets around... You've got to go through a lot of sex to get to anti-sex, and SCUM's been through it all, and they're now ready for a new show; they want to crawl out from under the dock, move, take off, sink out." --Valerie Solanas 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. In Oakland, California on March 24, 2015 a fire destroyed the AK Press warehouse along with several other businesses. Please consider visiting the AK Press website to learn more about the fundraiser to help them and their neighbors. |