A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontags 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 Womenpresents seven essays and exchanges, spanning a range of subjects: the challenges and humiliations women face as they age; the relationship between womens liberation and class struggle; beauty, which Sontag calls that over-rich brew of so many familiar opposites ; feminism; fascism; and film. Taken together, these piecesrelentlessly curious, historically precise, politically robust, and allergic to easy categorization Sontags inimitable mind at work.
Susan Sontag(19332004) was the author of numerous works of nonfiction, including the groundbreaking collection of essays
Against Interpretation(FSG, 1966), and of four novels, including
In America(FSG, 2000), which won the National Book Award.
Introduction
The Double Standard of Aging
The Third World of Women
A Womans Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source?
Beauty: How Will It Change Next?
Feminism and Fascism: An Exchange
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