For a time she flirted with graduate training (including a job in an animal research lab) before dropping out of education, drifting across the country, and arriving in New York in 1962. Eventually her sharp intelligence won her a place at the University of Maryland, where in 1958 she earned an honors degree in psychology. Born in 1936 to a working-class New Jersey family, Solanas experienced physical and sexual abuse from her father and grandfather, bore two children before the age of fifteen, began to identify as a lesbian, and attended school erratically in between occasional stints on the streets. The SCUM Manifesto was the product of years of rumination by a woman living on the margins. First produced as a mimeograph in 1967 (Solanas sold it on the streets of New York, charging fifty cents for women and one dollar for men), the Manifesto appeared in book form in August 1968, two months after its author made headlines for her near-fatal shooting of Andy Warhol, who she believed was stealing her work.

Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex.įerocious, deranged, hilarious, and exhilarating, Valerie Solanas’s SCUM Manifesto set out the agenda of the Society for Cutting Up Men, a revolutionary organization of which Solanas was the founder and sole member. OL6788537W Page_number_confidence 85.29 Pages 70 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220427153841 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 204 Scandate 20220426094054 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781873176443 Tts_version 4.First published at History Workshop Online. Urn:lcp:scummanifesto0000sola:epub:09d86b0b-9e4f-4775-8058-0f7fe5ec2d10 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier scummanifesto0000sola Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2xgqhzqnng Invoice 1652 Isbn 1873176449ĩ781873176443 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.15 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-1200099 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 09:13:45 Autocrop_version 0.0.12_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40454202 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

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