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Every body. A book about freedom

Every body. A book about freedom

Every body. A book about freedom

Editorial: Picador

Any: 2021

EAN: 9781509857128

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Sobre el libro Every body. A book about freedom de Olivia Laing publicado por Picador al 2021:

At a moment in which basic rights are once again in danger, 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 travelling 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, Sigmund Freud, Susan Sontag and Malcolm X. Everybody is a crucial examination of the forces arranged against freedom and a celebration of how ordinary human bodies can resist oppression and reshape the world. ...
Olivia Laing

Sobre Olivia Laing

Aclamada escriptora i crítica, Laing és autora de set llibres, entre ells To the River (2011), El viatge a Echo Spring (2013), La ciutat solitària (2016) i Tots els cossos (2021). És membre de la Royal Society of Literature i en 2018 va ser guardonada amb el Premi Windham-Campbell de no ficció. Laing va créixer en Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire. Es va matricular en la Universitat de Sussex per a estudiar anglès, però va abandonar els estudis per a participar en una protesta de carretera...

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