Out on 29 April, pre-order here.
The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly
vulnerable and radiant with power. At a moment in which basic rights are
once again imperilled, Olivia Laing conducts an ambitious investigation
into the body and its discontents, using the life of the renegade
psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to chart a daring course through the long
struggle for bodily freedom, from gay rights and sexual liberation to
feminism and the civil rights movement. Drawing on her own experiences
in protest and alternative medicine, and travelling from Weimar Berlin
to the prisons of McCarthy-era America, she 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.
Despite its many burdens, the body
remains a source of power, even in an era as technologized and
automated as our own. Everybody is an examination of the forces arranged
against freedom and a celebration of how ordinary human bodies can
resist oppression and reshape the world.
Hardback
Everybody - Olivia Laing
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