Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 pieces relentlessly curious historically precise politically robust and allergic to easy categorization Sontag's inimitable mind at work.
Title: On Women
Author(s): Sontag Susan, David Rieff
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250876850
Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/30/2023
Category: Literary Studies: General