(Or don’t they do that with psychology degrees?) It would be interesting to know what her professors from the University of Maryland made of this effort at developing a coherent sequence of argument, aimed at convincing the sceptical. It was only that shocking and meaningless act of violence that brought the SCUM Manifesto out of the shadows where it belonged, and into the warm glow of approval by the radical feminist lobby, backed by untold millions from the rest of the Sixties protest crowd.
She herself denied that it was the acronym of ‘Society for Cutting Up Men’, though that phrase had indeed been coined by her, not long before she tried cutting up three men with a revolver in Andy Warhol’s studio. Online resource title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed February 8, 2019)įoreword / Michelle Tea - SCUM Manifesto / Valerie Solanas - About Valerie Solanas / compiled by Freddie BaerĮven the name SCUM reflects the confused identity, so symbolic of Valerie Solanas. Deemed a paranoid schizophrenic by the state, Solanas was immortalized in the 1996 film I Shot Andy Warhol."-Provided by publisher
Valerie Solanas was a radical feminist playwright and social propagandist who was arrested in 1968 after her attempted assassination of Andy Warhol. This is an update of the essential AK Press edition, with a new foreword. Shifting fluidly between the worlds of satire and straightforward critique, this no-holds-barred classic is a call to action - a radical feminist vision for a different world. "First circulated on the streets of Greenwich Village in 1967, the SCUM Manifesto is a searing indictment of patriarchal culture in all its forms.
In fact, the work has indisputable prescience, not only as a radical feminist analysis light-years ahead of its time predicting artificial insemination, ATMs, a feminist uprising against under-representation in the arts but also as a stunning testament to the rage of an abused and destitute woman But the Manifesto, for all its vitriol, is impossible to dismiss as just the rantings of a lesbian lunatic. Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, self-published this work just before her rampage against the king of Pop Art made her a household name and resulted in her confinement to a mental institution. SCUM Manifesto was considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts when it first appeared in 1968.
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