Everybody : a book about freedom / Olivia Laing.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laing, Olivia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Laing, Olivia.

Reich, Wilhelm, 1897-1957.

Reich, Wilhelm.

Human body--Social aspects.

Human body.

Body image.

Human rights movements.

Liberty.

Genre:

Philosophy / Mind & Body.

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

349 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2021.

Summary:

""Astute and consistently surprising critic" (NPR) Olivia Laing investigates the body and its discontents through the great freedom movements of the twentieth century. The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to explore gay rights and sexual liberation, feminism, and the civil rights movement. Drawing on her own experiences in protest and alternative medicine, and traveling from Weimar Berlin to the prisons of Joseph McCarthy's America, Laing grapples with some of the most significant and complicated figures of the past century-among them Nina Simone, Christopher Isherwood, Andrea Dworkin, Sigmund Freud, Susan Sontag, and Malcolm X. Arriving at a moment in which basic bodily rights are once again imperiled, Everybody is an investigation into the forces arranged against freedom and a celebration of how ordinary human bodies can resist oppression and reshape the world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The liberation machine

Unwell

Sex acts

In harm's way

A radiant net

Cells

Block/Swarm

22nd century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-346).

ISBN:

9780393608779

0393608778

OCLC:

1196176741