Search Results for SCUM Manifesto

...Anna Ioanes Abstract The emerging genre of autotheory has been tied to a longer lineage of feminist and queer writing. Valerie Solanas’s SCUM Manifesto (1967) forms an important context for contemporary autotheoretical practices not only as an influence but also as a cautionary tale. Published...

... actions and her SCUM Manifesto. To return to Piette and Clune, one can safely say that while fantasies of nonaligned observation, or of collectivity without society, may be contained within texts from the period, these certainly aren’t the feel- ings or desires engendered in this reader...

... brilliant flowering during the late 1960s and found perhaps its strong- est expression in two student manifestos, the 1969 declaration of the National Chicano Youth Liberation Conference, El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán, and El...

..., however, as a mutant terrorist very much akin to Valerie Solanas and members of her Society for Cutting Up Men (SCUM), refuses to be like “passive, rattle-headed Daddy’s girls, ever eager for [male] approval” (Solanas 1968 ). Instead, by enhancing herself through identification with another woman Rogue...