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Everybody - A Book about Freedom (Hardcover)
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Everybody - A Book about Freedom (Hardcover)
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The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly
vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant
sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the
long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life of the renegade
psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to explore gay rights and sexual
liberation, feminism, and the civil rights movement. Drawing on her
own experiences in protest and alternative medicine, and traveling
from Weimar Berlin to the prisons of McCarthy-era America, Laing
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. Arriving at a moment
in which basic bodily rights are once again imperiled, Everybody is
an investigation into the forces arranged against freedom and a
celebration of how ordinary human bodies can resist oppression and
reshape the world.
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