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- Valerie Jean Solanas (April 9, 1936 – April 25, 1988) was an American radical feminist known for her attempt to murder artist Andy Warhol in 1968, and the SCUM Manifesto, which she self-published in 1967.
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Dec 22, 2022 · SCUM, which was once thought to have stood for ‘Society for Cutting Up Men’ was a radical feminist manifesto which called for the worldwide overthrow of male-dominated systems. Solanas’ manifesto is wildly provocative in nature and advocates for the violent eradication of the male species through societal anarchy.
Valerie Jean Solanas (April 9, 1936 – April 25, 1988) was an American radical feminist known for her attempt to murder artist Andy Warhol in 1968, and the SCUM Manifesto, which she self-published in 1967.
Jun 26, 2020 · Solanas was a radical feminist (though she would say she loathed most feminists), a pioneering queer theorist (at least according to some) and the author of “ SCUM Manifesto ,” in which she...
- Bonnie Wertheim
Feb 15, 2022 · During the second wave, Solanas’ shooting of Warhol fractured feminism into liberal and radical camps: liberals rejected Solanas, and radicals embraced her. Both sides of the feminist divide, however, turned away from violence as a political tactic.
Sep 2, 2019 · Valerie Solanas penned a radical feminist manifesto that inspired a new wave of thinking, but was equally famous for her paranoid shooting of Warhol.
- Amanda Prahl
complicated politics of claiming Solanas for the feminist movement by analyzing the various ways she has been introduced, framed, antholo gized, and canonized by feminist scholars. At the heart of such discussion lie the pivotal questions: Why should we take Solanas seriously, and what does she offer to the project of (radical) feminism?
Apr 9, 2018 · She was a mysterious Villager known for being a radical lesbian feminist separatist, for writing the wild, controversial SCUM Manifesto, for shooting Andy Warhol and two others at Warhol’s Factory in Union Square and defending herself at her trial.
