. “To see the SCUM Manifesto’s humor, to let it crack you up page after page, is not to read it as a joke. This is an update of the essential AK Press edition, with a new foreword. Humor such as this is a muscle, a weapon… It was the truth, and the truth is so absurd it’s painful. In fact, the work has proved prescient, not only as a radical feminist analysis light years ahead of its time—predicting artificial insemination, ATMs, a feminist uprising against underrepresentation in the arts—but also as a stunning testament to the rage of an abused and destitute woman. Outrageous and violent, SCUM Manifesto was widely lambasted when it first appeared in 1968. by Valerie Solanas Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, self-published the book just before she became a notorious household name and was confined to a mental institution. Valerie Solanas was a radical feminist playwright and social propagandist who was arrested in 1968 after her attempted assassination of Andy Warhol.
By Valerie Solanas
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Brittany
Honestly, this book is hilarious and I enjoy sending excerpts to my male friends. I have no regrets. I found her so interesting that I googled just to be sure and when I found out I could actually read her manifesto, I ordered it immediately. I first learned of Valerie on American Horror Story and thought she was a made up character.
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