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Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject.<BR><BR>Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere, and the 'insatiability of the photographing eye' has profoundly altered our relationship with the world. Photographs have the power to shock, idealize or seduce, they create a sense of nostalgia and act as a memorial, and they can be used as evidence against us or to identify us. In these six incisive essays, Sontag examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality and authority in our lives.<BR><BR>'Sontag offers enough food for thought to satisfy the most intellectual of appetites'The Times<BR><BR>'A brilliant analysis of the profound changes photographic images have made in our way of looking at the world, and at ourselves'Washington Post<BR><BR>'The most original and illuminating study of the subject'New Yorker<BR><BR>One of America's best-known and most admired writers, Susan Sontag was also a leading commentator on contemporary culture until her death in December 2004. Her books include four novels and numerous works of non-fiction, among them Regarding the Pain of Others, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, At the Same Time, Against Interpretation and Other Essays and Reborn: Early Diaries 1947-1963, all of which are published by Penguin. A further eight books, including the collections of essays Under the Sign of Saturn and Where the Stress Falls, and the novels The Volcano Lover and The Benefactor, are available from Penguin Modern Classics.

Susan Sontag über Gleichheit, Altern, Schönheit und SexualitätWas bedeutet es, eine Frau zu sein? Dieser Essayband von Susan Sontag stellt genau diese Frage. Erstmals versammelt ein Buch ihre wichtigsten Texte zu ästhetischen, politischen und ökonomischen Aspekten des Frauseins. Sontag schreibt über Gleichheit, weibliches Altern, Schönheit, Sexualität und Macht und zeigt sich als Vordenkerin und Visionärin im Kampf um echte Gleichberechtigung. 'Solange sich nicht ändert, wer Macht hat und was Macht ist, gibt es keine Befreiung, sondern nur Beschwichtigung', konstatiert sie. 'Über Frauen' wehrt sich gegen jede Form von Beschwichtigung und ist in seinen Beobachtungen und Forderungen aktueller denn je für jeden feministischen Diskurs.

'A brilliant, glittering intelligence' Sunday Times<BR><BR>On Women brings together Susan Sontag's most fearless and incisive writing on women, a crucial aspect of her work that has not until now received the attention it deserves<BR><BR>Written during the height of second-wave feminism, Sontag's essays remain strikingly relevant to our contemporary conversations. At times powerfully in sync and at others powerfully at odds with them, they are always characteristically original in their examinations of the 'biological division of labour', the double-standard for ageing and the dynamics of women's power and powerlessness.<BR><BR>As Merve Emre writes in her introduction, On Women offers us 'the spectacle of a ferocious intellect setting itself to the task at hand: to articulate the politics and aesthetics of being a woman in the United States, the Americas and the world.'<BR><BR>'Boldly provocative' iNews<BR><BR>'On Women demonstrates a powerful mind and equally forceful personality' The Herald