Publisher Description

For over forty years, Valerie Solanas' biting polemic has delighted and terrified readers. SCUM is an indictment of patriarchal culture, a call to action, a radical feminist vision for a different world. Alternating between satire and seriousness, SCUM remains as a relevant today as when it was first written. Popular and divisive from its first publication, the SCUM Manifesto has proved an enduring classic and has been translated into over a dozen languages. This edition is an update of a best-selling AK Press backlist title, with a new introduction by American poet Michelle Tea.

Author Biography

Valerie Solanas (1936-1988) wrote "Up Your Ass," a play; appeared in 1, A Man, a film by Andy Warhol; and then shot Andy Warhol in 1968. She was sent to a psychiatric hospital and released after three years.

Competing Titles

Pussycat Fever Kathy Acker 9781873176634 8.00 AK Press 07/2001 Girls to the Front Sara Marcus 9780061806360 14.99 Harper 09/2010 Rat Girl Kristen Hersh 9780143117391 15.00 Penguin 08/2010 Pussy Riot! Pussy Riot 9781558618343 12.95 Feminist Press 02/2013

Description for Sales People

This longstanding, controversial feminist text has been a subject of considerable academic study. In the wake of the Pussy Riot scandal and the post-Occupy moment, a new confrontational feminism has re-emerged. Valerie Solanas, the would-be assassin of Andy Warhol, has been the subject of much cultural fascination.

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