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ON WOMEN - SUSAN SONTAG GEBUNDEN

'A brilliant  glittering intelligence' Sunday Times On Women brings together Susan Sontag's
most fearless and incisive writing on women  a crucial aspect of her work that has not until
now received the attention it deserves. For the most part written in the 1970s during the
height of second-wave feminism  Sontag's essays are strikingly relevant to our contemporary
conversations. At times powerfully in sync and at others powerfully at odds with them  they are
always characteristically original in their examinations of the 'biological division of labour'
the double-standard for ageing and the dynamics of women's powerlessness and women's power. As
Merve Emre writes in her introduction  'They offer us the spectacle of a ferocious intellect
setting itself to the task at hand: to articulate the politics and aesthetics of being a woman
in the United States  the Americas and the world.' 'One of America's greatest public
intellectuals' Observer 'Susan Sontag offers enough food for thought to satisfy the most
intellectual of appetites' The Times'At the time she died  she was America's best-known public
intellectual. To my mind  she was also the most exemplary' John Gray  New Statesman WITH A
PREFACE BY MERVE EMRE

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