Breanne Fahs Valerie Solanas : The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote Scum (and Shot Andy Warhol)

Label / Feminist Press at The City University of New York
Category / Biography, Feminism
Code / 9781558618480

Valerie Solanas is one of the most polarizing figures of 1960s counterculture. A cult hero to some and vehemently denounced by others, she has been dismissed but never forgotten. Known for shooting Andy Warhol in 1968 and for writing the infamous SCUM Manifesto, Solanas became one of the most famous women of her era. But she was also diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and spent much of her life homeless or in mental hospitals. Solanas’s SCUM Manifesto, a sui generis vision of radical gender dystopia, predicted ATMs, test-tube babies, the Internet, and artificial insemination long before they existed. It has sold more copies and been translated into more languages than nearly all other feminist texts of its time. And yet, shockingly little work has investigated the life of its author.

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Breanne Fahs Valerie Solanas : The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote Scum (and Shot Andy Warhol)

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