de Las Mujeres / On Women

Susan Sontag fue una de las pensadoras m嫳 formidables, originales e influyentes del siglo pasado. «Las ideas m嫳 interesantes son las herej燰s , sosten燰. Y en efecto: sus escritos descartan lo trillado y se niegan a seguir las l璯eas partidistas.

De las mujeres ofrece siete ensayos y debates sobre una amplia gama de asuntos: los desaf甐s y humillaciones a las que se enfrentan las mujeres a medida que envejecen; la relaci鏮 entre la liberaci鏮 de la mujer y la lucha de clases; la belleza, que Sontag llama «esa p鏂ima demasiado pesada de tantos consabidos opuestos ; el feminismo; el fascismo; y el cine. En conjunto, estos an嫮isis, reacios a la f塶il categorizaci鏮, muestran no s鏊o su curiosidad implacable, su precisi鏮 hist鏎ica y su vigor pol癃ico, sino la inimitable mente de Sontag en acci鏮.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A concise and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag's writings on women, bringing together her early essays--several of them never before published in English--on aging, equality, beauty, sexuality, and fascism.

Susan Sontag was one of the most formidable, original, and influential thinkers of the 20th century. "The most interesting ideas are heresies," she claimed--and indeed, her work rejects convention and refuses to follow partisan lines.

On Women presents seven essays and debates on a wide range of topics: the challenges and humiliations women face as they age; the connection between women's liberation and class struggle; beauty, which Sontag describes as "that overly potent potion of so many familiar opposites"; feminism; fascism, and cinema. Together, these analyses--resistant to an easy categorization--reveal not only her relentless curiosity, historical precision, and political vigor, but also the unmistakable brilliance of Sontag's mind at work.