On Women

It’s her clarity that can make you gasp, combined with her confidence … what shines through this book is the extraordinary suppleness of her mind … She articulated, in punchy, matter-of-fact prose, thoughts that for most of us would stay at best half-formed – Christina Patterson * Sunday Times *On Women offers tantalizing glimmers and hints [of] what Susan Sontag would make of our current political moment … Sontag’s stylish, idiosyncratic approach to the feminist debates and preoccupations of her era can be distilled pretty well into tangible guidance for ours * The Atlantic *On Women demonstrates a powerful mind and equally forceful personality … like turning back the clock to the days of Sontag’s prime – Rosemary Goring * The Herald *Sontag’s language is urgent … and boldly provocative. Those previously unsure where she stood on the politics of womanhood, or found her opaque on the topic, can be in no doubt after this * iNews *

Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. Her non-fiction works include On Photography, Regarding the Pain of Others and At the Same Time. She was also the author of four novels, including The Volcano Lover and In America, as well as a collection of stories and several plays. She was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, and received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. She died in December 2004.