Bibliograph

Everybody, a book about freedom, Olivia Laing

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Everybody, a book about freedom, Olivia Laing

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-346) and index

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illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Everybody

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1246785152

Responsibility statement

Olivia Laing

Sub title

a book about freedom

Summary

""Astute and consistently surprising critic" (NPR) Olivia Laing investigates the body and its discontents through the great freedom movements of the twentieth century. The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to explore gay rights and sexual liberation, feminism, and the civil rights movement. Drawing on her own experiences in protest and alternative medicine, and traveling from Weimar Berlin to the prisons of Joseph McCarthy's America, Laing grapples with some of the most significant and complicated figures of the past century-among them Nina Simone, Christopher Isherwood, Andrea Dworkin, Sigmund Freud, Susan Sontag, and Malcolm X. Arriving at a moment in which basic bodily rights are once again imperiled, Everybody is an investigation into the forces arranged against freedom and a celebration of how ordinary human bodies can resist oppression and reshape the world"--, Provided by publisher

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