A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontagโs 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. โThe most interesting ideas are heresies,โ 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 womenโs liberation and class struggle; beauty, which Sontag calls โthat over-rich brew of so many familiar oppositesโ; feminism; fascism; and film. Taken together, these piecesโrelentlessly curious, historically precise, politically robust, and allergic to easy categorization Sontagโs inimitable mind at work.