On women / Susan Sontag ; edited by David Rieff ; introduction by Merve Emre.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004, author.

Contributor:

Rieff, David, editor.

Emre, Merve, writer of introduction.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Essays.

Women.

Genre:

Essays.

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xvi, 184 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023.

Summary:

"A new collection of Susan Sontag's essays about women, edited by David Rieff and introduced by Merve Emre"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Contents:

The Double Standard of Aging

The Third World of Women

A Woman's Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source?

Beauty: How Will It Change Next?

Fascinating Fascism

Feminism and Fascism: An Exchange Between Adrienne Rich and Susan Sontag

The Salmagundi Interview.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781250876850

1250876850

OCLC:

1365767907