On Women
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  • Published: 1 June 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241997161
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $30.00
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On Women

A new collection of feminist essays from the influential writer, activist and critic, Susan Sontag

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27 Aug 2024
EBook
2 Mar 2023
Audiobook
1 Jun 2023
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On Women brings together for the first time Susan Sontag's most incisive and direct writing on womanhood

A brilliant new collection of essays on the oppression of women and the tools necessary for liberation from highly-acclaimed author Susan Sontag. Often regarded as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, Sontag's writing is breathtakingly clear, stylish and intellectually exhilarating.

First written in the 1970s during the height of second-wave feminism, On Women examines 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.

This collection of lost essays from Susan Sontag is a revelation.
  • Published: 1 June 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241997161
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $30.00
Categories:

About the author

Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. Her non-fiction works include Against Interpretation, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, AIDS and its Metaphors and Regarding the Pain of Others. She is also the author of four novels, a collection of stories and several plays. Her books are translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work, and in 2003 she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. She died in December 2004.

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Praise for On Women

It'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-formed

Christina Patterson, Sunday Times

On 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 ours

The Atlantic

On Women demonstrates a powerful mind and equally forceful personality . . . like turning back the clock to the days of Sontag's prime

Rosemary Goring, The Herald

Sontag'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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