A posthumous collection of Susan Sontag's essays, interviews, and letters on beauty, aging, fascism, and feminism, spanning from the 1970s through the end of her career.
Books mentioned in On Women (15)
Seduction and Betrayal by Elizabeth Hardwick: “...that most remarkable of recent contributions to the feminist imagination of history, Elizabeth Hardwick's Seduction and Betrayal.”
Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima: “This eroticization of fascism can be remarked in such enthralling and devout manifestations as Mishima's Confessions of a Mask and Sun and Steel...”
Story of O by Pauline Réage: “...you describe the heroine of Story of O as a woman who 'progresses simultaneously toward her own extinction as a human being and her fulfillment as a sexual being.'”
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan: “...women thumbing through copies of The Second Sex, The Feminine Mystique, The Dialectic of Sex, and Sexual Politics with great intent.”
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir: “...women thumbing through copies of The Second Sex, The Feminine Mystique, The Dialectic of Sex, and Sexual Politics with great intent.”
The Dialectic of Sex by Shulamith Firestone: “...women thumbing through copies of The Second Sex, The Feminine Mystique, The Dialectic of Sex, and Sexual Politics with great intent.”
Sexual Politics by Kate Millett: “...women thumbing through copies of The Second Sex, The Feminine Mystique, The Dialectic of Sex, and Sexual Politics with great intent.”
The Odd Women by George Gissing: “...found its voice in the 1890s in, say, Shaw's essays and George Gissing's novel The Odd Women.”
Fellow Teachers by Philip Rieff: “Interviewer: In his book Fellow Teachers, Philip Rieff writes: 'True criticism is constituted, first, by repeating what is already known.'”
The Princess Casamassima by Henry James: “...when Henry James made his prescient, melancholy analysis of our post-1960s cultural dilemmas in The Princess Casamassima...”
Lost Horizon by James Hilton: “...as in the end of Lost Horizon, when the beautiful young girl is carried by her lover out of Shangri-La and, within minutes, turns into a withered, repulsive crone.”
Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf: “Virginia Woolf was altogether correct when she declared in the late 1930s, in a remarkable tract called Three Guineas, that the fight to liberate women is a fight against fascism.”
Funeral Rites by Jean Genet: “It was Genet, in his novel Funeral Rites, who provided one of the first texts that showed the erotic allure fascism exercised on someone who was not a fascist.”
The Childermass by Wyndham Lewis: “...for example, Wyndham Lewis, whose novel-diatribe The Childermass, written in the late twenties, contains a long speech about how the naturally feminine and the masculine are being subverted...”
La Mort dans l'âme by Jean-Paul Sartre: “In La Mort dans l'âme (1949), the third novel in his four-part Les Chemins de la liberté, Sartre describes one of his protagonists experiencing the entry of the German army into Paris in 1940...”