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Written during the height of second-wave feminism, Sontag’s essays remain 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 power and powerlessness. As Merve Emre writes in her introduction, ‘On Women’ offers 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.’
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First written in the 1970s during the height of second-wave feminism, Sontag’s essays examine the ‘biological division of labour’, the double standard for ageing and the struggle for real power, topics which are strikingly relevant to our contemporary conversations.
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This, the second volume of Susan Sontag’s journals, begins in the middle of the 1960s. It traces and documents her evolution from fledgling participant in the artistic and intellectual world of New York City to world-renowned critic and dominant force in the world of ideas with the publication of ‘Against Interpretation’ in 1966.
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This is a selection from Sontag’s early writings about the arts and contemporary culture. As well as the title essay, ‘On Style and Notes on Camp’, the book includes discussion of such figures as Sartre, Simone Weil and Genet.
