S.C.U.M. [Society for Cutting Up Men] Manifesto [1st UK]

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By Valerie Solanas

The scorching polemic of radical feminism

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  • Radical feminist Valerie Solanas achieved notoriety & exposure for her cause by shooting Andy Warhol in 1968
  • When selling her original self-published edition of the SCUM Manifesto on the streets [1967], Solanas sold copies for $1 to women but charged men $2
  • First UK Edition [Olympia Press, London, 1971]; illustrated card wraps, a little rubbed, couple of marks, dent half-way down spine, an excellent copy; ISBN 0 700 410 30 9 / 0700410309

This violent, excessive, obnoxious and totally fascinating little book has suddenly become the Charter of all female revolutionaries. It is a document of our time…