SCUM Manifesto (The Sixties in America)
At a glance:
- Author: Valerie Solanas
- First Published: 1968
- Genres: Nonfiction, Social issues, Jeremiad
- Subjects: Social reform, Feminism, Women’s issues, Women, Men
The Work
In the SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto, Valerie Solanas, a playwright who was the founder and sole member of the society, argues that men are biological accidents, that the Y gene is an incomplete X, making men incomplete women. To compensate for their deficiency, men have constructed all of Western civilization and a host of social evils such as war, religion, marriage, money, violence, disease, and death. Furthermore, men have projected their own passivity onto women, defining themselves as active, and set out to prove their manhood by compulsive...
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