A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontagâs writing on women, gathering early essays on aging, equality, beauty, sexuality, and fascism
Susan Sontag was one of the most formidable, original, and influential thinkers of the last century. âThe most interesting ideas are heresies,â she remarked, and indeed, her writing rejects the familiar and refuses party lines.
On Women presents seven essays and exchanges, spanning a range of subjects: the challenges and humiliations women face as they age; the relationship between womenâs liberation and class struggle; beauty, which Sontag calls âthat over-rich brew of so many familiar oppositesâ; feminism; fascism; and film. Taken together, these piecesârelentlessly curious, historically precise, politically robust, and allergic to easy categorization Sontagâs inimitable mind at work.