Scum Manifesto

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Harding, James Martin (2010). Cutting Performances: Collage Events, Feminist Artists, and the American Avant-Garde. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-11718-5. Fahs, Breanne (2014). Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol). New York: The Feminist Press. ISBN 978-1558618480. Lord, Catherine (2010). "Wonder waif meets super neuter". October. 132 (132): 135–136. doi: 10.1162/octo.2010.132.1.135. S2CID 57566909. The SCUM Manifesto was little-known until Solanas attempted to murder Andy Warhol in 1968. This event brought significant public attention to the SCUM Manifesto and Solanas herself. [7] [8] While feminist Ti-Grace Atkinson defended Solanas and considered the Manifesto a valid criticism of patriarchy, others, such as Betty Friedan, considered Solanas' views to be too radical and polarizing. Winkiel (1999), p.69 (Solanas "imagin[ed]... a world run by women") and see p. 79 ("a better world run by women").

Fahs states that "the more likely story ... places Valerie at the Actors Studio at 432 West Forty-Fourth Street early that morning." [46] Actress Sylvia Miles states that Solanas appeared at the Actors Studio looking for Lee Strasberg, asking to leave a copy of Up Your Ass for him. [46] Miles said that Solanas "had a different look, a bit tousled, like somebody whose appearance is the last thing on her mind." [45] Miles told Solanas that Strasberg would not be in until the afternoon, accepted the script, and then "shut the door because I knew she was trouble. I didn't know what sort of trouble, but I knew she was trouble." [45] SCUM Manifesto is a radical feminist manifesto by Valerie Solanas, published in 1967. [1] [2] It argues that men have ruined the world, and that it is up to women to fix it. To achieve this goal, it suggests the formation of SCUM, an organization dedicated to overthrowing society and eliminating the male sex. The SCUM Manifesto has been described as a satire or parody, especially due to its parallels with Freud's theory of femininity, though this has been disputed, even by Solanas herself. [3] [4]

Heller (2008), p.165 (and see pp. 15–16), citing as excerpting SCUM Manifesto Kolmar, Wendy, & Frances Bartkowski, eds., Feminist Theory: A Reader (Mountain View, Calif.: Mayfield, 2000), & Albert, Judith Clavir, & Stewart Edward Albert, eds., The Sixties Papers: Documents of a Rebellious Decade (1984). Marmorstein, Robert (June 13, 1968). "A winter memory of Valerie Solanis [ sic]: scum goddess". The Village Voice. XIII (35): 9–10, 20. Echols, Alice (1983). "The new feminism of yin and yang". In Ann Barr Snitow; Christine Stansell; Sharon Thompson (eds.). Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality. New York: Monthly Review Press. ISBN 0-85345-610-0.

Heller, Dana (2008). "Shooting Solanas: radical feminist history and the technology of failure". In Victoria Hesford; Lisa Diedrich (eds.). Feminist Time against Nation Time: Gender, Politics, and the Nation-State in an Age of Permanent War. Lanham, MD: Lexington. ISBN 978-0-7391-1123-9. Winkiel (1999), p.73 ("the only act of violence to come as a direct result of the manifesto") and p. 79 (the Manifesto "result[ing] in one failed assassination"). Ti-Grace Atkinson, the New York chapter president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), described Solanas as "the first outstanding champion of women's rights" [66] and "a 'heroine' of the feminist movement," [67] [68] and "smuggled [her manifesto]... out of the mental hospital where Solanas was confined." [67] [68] According to Betty Friedan, the NOW board rejected Atkinson's statement. [68] Atkinson left NOW and founded another feminist organization. [69] According to Friedan, "the media continued to treat Ti-Grace as a leader of the women's movement, despite its repudiation of her." [70] Kennedy, another NOW member, called Solanas "one of the most important spokeswomen of the feminist movement." [19] [71]Bernstein Weiss, Tracey (1978). The Rhetoric of Radical Feminism: A Pentadic Analysis of the Inception of a Rhetorical Movement. Temple University. p.3. In 2018, The New York Times started a series of delayed obituaries of significant individuals whose importance the paper's obituary writers had not recognized at the time of their deaths. In June 2020, they started a series of obituaries on LGBTQ individuals, and on June 26, they profiled Solanas. [104] I consider that a moral act. And I consider it immoral that I missed. I should have done target practice. Goldwag, Arthur (May 15, 2012). "Intelligence Report Article Provokes Fury Among Men's Rights Activists". Hatewatch. Montgomery, Alab.: Southern Poverty Law Center . Retrieved 28 April 2013. Jansen describes the plan for creating a women's world as mainly nonviolent, as based on women's nonparticipation in the current economy and having nothing to do with any men, thereby overwhelming police and military forces. [52] If solidarity among women was insufficient, some women could take jobs and "unwork", causing systemic collapse; [55] and describes the plan as anticipating that by eliminating money, there'd be no further need to kill men. [55] Jansen and Winkiel say that Solanas imagined a women-only world. [56] [57]

Friedan, Betty (1976). It Changed My Life: Writings on the Women's Movement. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0-394-46398-8. Love can't flourish in a society based upon money and meaningless work: it requires complete economic as well as personal freedom, leisure time and the opportunity to engage in intensely absorbing, emotionally satisfying activities which, when shared with those you respect, lead to deep friendship.” Solanas may have intended to write an eponymous autobiography. [76] In a 1977 Village Voice interview, [77] she announced a book with her name as the title. [78] The book, possibly intended as a parody, was supposed to deal with the "conspiracy" that led to her imprisonment. [77] In a corrective 1977 Village Voice interview, Solanas said the book would not be autobiographical other than a small portion and that it would be about many things, include proof of statements in the manifesto, and would "deal very intensively with the subject of bullshit," but she said nothing about parody. [60]Purkis, Jon; Bowen, James (1997). Twenty-First Century Anarchism: Unorthodox Ideas for a New Millennium. London: Cassell. ISBN 978-0304337422.