SCUM Manifesto

Valerie Solanas

AK Press, Sep 16, 2013 - Social Science - 80 pages

First circulated on the streets of Greenwich Village in 1967, the SCUM Manifesto is a searing indictment of patriarchal culture in all its forms. Shifting fluidly between the worlds of satire and straightforward critique, this no-holds-barred classic is a call to action—a radical feminist vision for a different world. This is an update of the essential AK Press edition, with a new foreword.

Valerie Solanas was a radical feminist playwright and social propagandist who was arrested in 1968 after her attempted assassination of Andy Warhol. Deemed a paranoid schizophrenic by the state, Solanas was immortalized in the 1996 film I Shot Andy Warhol.

Contents

• Section 1: 1
• Section 2: 3

About the author

Valerie Solanas: Valerie Solanas was a radical feminist playwright and social propagandist best known as the author of the SCUM Manifesto, which she self-published and sold on the streets of New York. In 1968, she was arrested after an assassination attempt on the life Andy Warhol, and imprisoned for three years. Deemed a paranoid schizophrenic by the state, once out of jail, Solanas stalked Warhol for several more years, before eventually leaving New York. She died alone and in relative obscurity in 1988 in San Francisco, leaving behind a sheaf of typewritten pages that her mother burned after her death. Solanas was immortalized by actress Lili Taylor in the 1996 film I Shot Andy Warhol.

Bibliographic information

• Title: SCUM Manifesto
• Author: Valerie Solanas
• Edition: reprint, revised
• Publisher: AK Press, 2013
• ISBN: 1849351813, 9781849351812
• Length: 80 pages
• Subjects: Literary Criticism / Feminist; Political Science / Political Ideologies / Radicalism; Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory; Social Science / Women's Studies