Life in this society being at best an utter bore & 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 & destroy the male sex SCUM Manifesto was considered one of the most outrageous violent & certifiably crazy tracts when it first appeared in 1968 Valerie Solanas the woman who shot Andy Warhol self-published this work just before her rampage against the king of Pop Art made her a household name & resulted in her confinement to a mental institution But the Manifesto for all its vitriol is impossible to dismiss as just the rantings of a lesbian lunatic In fact the work has indisputable prescience not only as a radical feminist analysis light-years ahead of its time predicting artificial insemination ATMs & a feminist uprising against under-representation in the arts but also as a stunning testament to the rage of an abused & destitute woman This edition
Includes:: an incisive introduction by acclaimed scholar Avital Ronell