Up Your Ass
Or From the Cradle to the Boat Or The Big Suck Or Up from the Slime
$31.90
- Paperback
104 pages
- Release Date
20 September 2022
Summary
Valerie Solanas’s legendary play, Up Your Ass—never published during her lifetime but full of her signature irreverence and wit, incisiveness, and camp—explodes social and sexual mores and the hypocritical, patriarchal culture that produces them. The play, the full title of which is Up Your Ass Or From the Cradle to the Boat Or The Big Suck Or Up from the Slime, marches out a cast of screwy stereotypes—the unknowing john, the frothy career girl, the boring male narcissist, t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9783956796050 |
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| ISBN-10: | 3956796055 |
| Author: | Valerie Solanas |
| Publisher: | Sternberg Press |
| Imprint: | Sternberg Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 104 |
| Release Date: | 20 September 2022 |
| Weight: | 85g |
| Dimensions: | 179mm x 114mm x 9mm |
| Series: | Sternberg Press / Montana |
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“The manuscript’s épater la bourgeoisie sensibility, shot through with clichés about race and sexuality, places it squarely in the twentieth century. But the text also outlines a space of genderqueer possibility that wouldn’t be theorized for years, advocates for sex workers’ rights, and sketches the dark future of reproductive technology through allusions to biological determinism.”
—Wendy Vogel, Artforum
About The Author
Valerie Solanas
Valerie Solanas (1936-1988) was a writer and artist. She completed SCUM Manifesto in 1967 and her play Up Your Ass in 1965; the latter was never published in her lifetime. As a result of her attempt to assassinate Andy Warhol in 1968, Solanas was involuntarily committed to psychiatric hospitalization. She was institutionalized a number of times in the years that followed, always living radically on the fringes of society.
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