SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas
For over forty years, Valerie Solanas' biting polemic has delighted and terrified readers. SCUM is an indictment of patriarchal culture, a call to action, a radical feminist vision for a different world. Alternating between satire and seriousness, SCUM remains as a relevant today as when it was first written. Popular and divisive from its first publication, the SCUM Manifesto has proved an enduring classic and has been translated into over a dozen languages. This edition is an update of a best-selling AK Press backlist title, with a new introduction by American poet Michelle Tea.Valerie Solanas was a radical feminist dramatist and social propagandist best known for self-publishing and selling the SCUM Manifesto on the streets of New York. After an assassination attempt on Andy Warhol's life in 1968, she was caught and imprisoned for three years. Solanas hounded Warhol for several more years after being released from prison, despite the fact that the state had labeled him a paranoid schizophrenic. She died in San Francisco alone and in relative obscurity in 1988, leaving behind a stack of typewritten papers that her mother burnt after her death. In the 1996 film I Shot Andy Warhol, actress Lili Taylor played Solanas.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781849351805 |
| ISBN 10 | 1849351805 |
| Title | SCUM Manifesto |
| Author | Valerie Solanas |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | AK Press |
| Year published | 2014-05-06 |
| Number of pages | 90 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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