Susan Sontag On Women : A new collection of feminist essays from the

A brilliant, glittering intelligence Sunday TimesOn Women brings together Susan Sontags most fearless and incisive writing on women, a crucial aspect of her work that has not until now received the attention it deservesWritten during the height of secondwave feminism, Sontags essays remain 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 doublestandard for ageing and the dynamics of womens power and powerlessness. As Merve Emre writes in her introduction, On Women offers 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. Boldly provocative iNewsOn Women demonstrates a powerful mind and equally forceful personality The Herald | Susan Sontag On Women : A new collection of feminist essays from the