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.'
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241597118Number of pages: 208Weight: 331 gDimensions: 222 x 144 x 23 mm
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A voice that is rigorous still,but bolder and freer and more gladiatorial in its pronouncementsIt's her clarity that can make you gasp,combined with her confidence...what shines through this book is the extraordinary suppleness of her mind...She articulated,in punchy,matter-of-fact prose,thoughts that for most of us would stay at best half-formedOn Women offers tantalizing glimmers and hints (of) what Susan Sontag would make of our current political moment...Sontag's stylish,idiosyncratic approach to the feminist debates and preoccupations of her era can be distilled pretty well into tangible guidance for oursOn Women demonstrates a powerful mind and equally forceful personality...like turning back the clock to the days of Sontag's primeSontag's language is urgent...and boldly provocative. Those previously unsure where she stood on the politics of womanhood,or found her opaque on the topic,can be in no doubt after this
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